This paper is part of a broader project on signaler psychology — exploring the cognitive computations behind human cooperative communication.
🔗 Project page: www.levyna.cz/en/research/...
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We expand costly signalling theory (of religion) from the participants’ perspective, showing that what drives ritual commitment isn’t just how people judge the costs, but how they perceive the benefits—including supernatural ones.
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Person with metal skewers in their back during Thaipusam Kavadi, between emojis symbolizing perceived health benefits and physical pain.
Our (with Pushkar Puryag, Radek Kundt & @martinlangcz.bsky.social ) study on the perceived costs & benefits of the Kavadi ritual in Mauritius was recently published in EHS.
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Oh, we've been there (9 years ago)! It's so beautiful!
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Interested in social cognition and decision-making?
Background in experimental psych/neuro or computational modelling?
Come work with us!
🚨Hiring 2 postdocs for 5-year interdisciplinary project!🚨
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Postdoc w/ experimental background in soc cognition
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Postdoc w/ computational modelling background in decision-making
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Deadline 13.12.!
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Nezávislý spolek zaměřený na popularizaci vědy, mezioborovost, celoživotní seberozvoj a podporu mezioborové inspirace v českém prostředí.
Research Fellow with the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative @ ANU
www.sampassmore.com
www.kinbank.net
Kinship | Language | Methods | Diversity
Cognitive Anthropologist at Queen's University Belfast
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognition & Culture
We rate DAGs.
(If you were hoping for dogs, try here: @weratedogs.com)
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Editing Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev & directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com.
🇳🇴 phd student in Trondheim, at NTNU. Interested in how perspectives from 4E cognition, niche construction, and cognitive science in general can inform the study of belief changes in history, especially secularism. Big fan of chess, music, books, and LFC.
Quantitative historiographer of religion, ancient Mediterranean, spatial proximity analysis, network approaches, Roman cults. Head of @municedrr.bsky.social
The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), an ERC-funded inititative at Masaryk University’s Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, applies SNA, GIS, and computational text analysis to explore dissident and inquisitorial cultures in medieval Europe.
The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion at Masaryk University is an interdisciplinary centre applying computational methods in research into religion
religionistika.phil.muni.cz/cedrr
Updates & research findings from the Generations & Gender Programme - a research infrastructure for studies of life course & family dynamics.
Akademie věd České republiky je organizační složka státu sdružující vědecké ústavy v České republice zabývající se převážně základním výzkumem.
www.avcr.cz/
#Psychologist and #scientist at Masaryk University and @akademievedcr.bsky.social . I'm interested in #statistics, #cross_cultural_psychology, #videogames and #integroup_contact.
https://www.davidlacko.eu/
Evolutionary Anthropologist/Human Behavioral Ecologist at Baylor University.
Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: https://danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
evolutionary anthropologist, overly committed to adaptationist logic
https://sites.google.com/site/cristinasolermoya/ Can we agree to fight against this corporate oligarchy? https://indivisible.org/groups
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @rug.nl | Interdisciplinary researcher interested in social networks, cooperation, and social and economic inequality | Assistant director of the ENDOW project: endowproject.github.io 🏳️🌈
Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.