Faculty staff

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• Mgr. Martin Lang, Ph.D., 21. November in Zábřeh, Czech Republic

Department/Faculty/University

• LEVYNA (Laboratory for experimental research of religion)
  Department for the scientific study of religions
  Masaryk University
  Arne Nováka 1
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic
  

Function, current position

• Post-doctoral researcher

Education and academic qualifications

• 2016: Ph.D. in Religious Studies, "The Cognitive Science of Religion", FF MU
• 2011: Mgr. in Religious Studies, "Neurophysiological basis of religiosity", FF MU
• 2008: Bc. in Religious Studies; & Medial Studies and Journalism, "Life in Sahaja Yoga movement: The case of spiritual change or conversion?" FF a FSS MU

Professional experience

• 2018 - : post-doctoral researcher, LEVYNA, MU
• 2016 - 2018: post-doctoral researcher, Harvard University
• 2014 - 2016: doctoral researcher, University of Connecticut
• 2011 - 2014: doctoral researcher, LEVYNA, MU

Teaching activities

• Fall semestr 2012: "Religion and social brain"

Research activities

• LEVYNA Research on ritual, anxiety and cooperation

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2015/07/13 – 2015/07/31: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Summer School, DNK
  • Účast na letní škole věnující se metodám sběru dat v terénnu se specifickým zaměřením na náboženství a rituály. Součástí pobytu byly přednášky od expertů a etnografický výzkum s informanty z Mauricia.
• 2009/08/31 – 2010/01/31: University of Szeged, Szeged, HUN

Major publications

• LANG, Martin. Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions. Religion, Brain & Behavior. London: Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francs Ltd., 2024, roč. 14, č. 1, s. 78-81. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2168737. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Joseph HENRICH a Ara NORENZAYAN. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II. New York: Routledge, 2024. ISBN 978-1-032-62407-5. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Radim CHVAJA a Benjamin G PURZYCKI. The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators duringintergroup conflict. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2024, roč. 45, č. 2, s. 131-143. ISSN 1090-5138. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.01.003. URL info
• XYGALATAS, Dimitrios, Martin LANG, Peter MAŇO, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Ronald FISCHER. Emotional contagion in a collective ritual. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY. UNITED STATES: WILEY, 2024, roč. 36, e24111, s. 1-12. ISSN 1042-0533. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24111. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Radim CHVAJA. Mechanisms of Secularization: Testing Between the Rationalization and Existential Insecurity Theories. COLLABRA-PSYCHOLOGY. UNITED STATES: UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2024, roč. 10, č. 1, s. 1-17, 18 s. ISSN 2474-7394. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/collabra.126508. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Radim CHVAJA. Hazard Precaution : Examining the Possible Adaptive Value of Ritualized Behavior. In Lior, Yair; Lane, Justin E. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023, s. 164-184. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. ISBN 978-1-138-33167-9. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/b23047-14. URL info
• BENDIXEN, Theiss, Aaron D LIGHTNER, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alexander BOLYANATZ, Emma Elizabeth Ann COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Eva KLOCOVÁ, Carolyn LESOROGOL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita A MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn PLACEK, Montserrat SOLER, Tom VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Aiyana K WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS, Martin LANG a Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI. Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2023, roč. 5, e18, s. 1-15. ISSN 2513-843X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform. Religion, Brain & Behavior. Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023, roč. 2023, e-print before press, s. 1-23. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977. URL info
• CHVAJA, Radim, Juana CHINCHILLA, Angel GOMEZ a Martin LANG. Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal : A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. European Journal of Social Psychology. Wiley, 2023, roč. 53, č. 6, s. 1294-1308. ISSN 0046-2772. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2975. URL info
• LANG, Martin. The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform. In Ritual in Human Evolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, International Conference Tübingen, Oct. 4–6, 2023, Germany. 2023. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Dimitrios XYGALATAS, C.M. KAVANAGH, N. BOCCARDI, J. HALBERSTADT, C. JACKSON, M. MARTINEZ, P. REDDISH, E.M.W. TONG, A. VAZQUEZ, H. WHITEHOUSE, M.E. YAMAMOTO, M. YUKI a A. GOMEZ. Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups : A cross-cultural examination. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022, roč. 25, č. 7, s. 1739-1759. ISSN 1368-4302. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13684302211016961. URL info
• VARDY, Thomas, Cristina MOYA, Caitlyn PLACEK, Coren APICELLA, Alexander BOLYANATZ, Emma COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Carolyn LESOROGOL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita MCNAMARA, Benjamin PURZYCKI, Montseratt SOLER, Jonathan WEIGEL, Ayiana WILLARD, Dimitrios XYGALATAS, Ara NORENZAYAN, Joseph HENRICH, Martin LANG a Quentin ATKINSON. The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies. Religion, Brain & Behavior. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 18-37. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006292. URL info
• BAIMEL, Adam, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alex BOLYANATZ, Emma COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Martin LANG, Carolyn LESOGOROL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn D PLACEK, Monserrat SOLER, Thomas VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Aiyana WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS a Benjamin PURZYCKI. Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities : a cross-cultural investigation. Religion, Brain & Behavior. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 4-17. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287. URL info
• PURZYCKI, Benjamin, Aiyana WILLARD, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Coren APICELLA, Quentin ATKINSON, Alex BOLYANATZ, Emma COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Joseph HENRICH, Martin LANG, Carolyn LESOGOROL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Caitlyn D PLACEK, Monserrat SOLER, Thomas VARDY, Jonathan WEIGEL, Dimitris XYGALATAS a Cody ROSS. The moralization bias of gods’ minds : a cross-cultural test. Religion, Brain & Behavior. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 38-60. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006291. URL info
• SOLER, Montserrat, Benjamin PURZYCKI a Martin LANG. Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil. Religion, Brain & Behavior. 2022, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 132-149. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006285. URL info
• PURZYCKI, Benjamin, Martin LANG, Joseph HENRICH a Ara NORENZAYAN. The Evolution of Religion and Morality project : reflections and looking ahead. Religion, Brain & Behavior. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 190-211. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2021546. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Radim CHVAJA, Benjamin PURZYCKI, David VÁCLAVÍK a Rostislav STANĚK. Advertising cooperative phenotype through costly signals facilitates collective action. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE. London: THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 2022, roč. 9, č. 5, s. 1-19. ISSN 2054-5703. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202202. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics. Scientific Reports. London: Nature Portfolio, 2022, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 1-9. ISSN 2045-2322. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4. URL info
• BEHEIM, Bret, Quentin D. ATKINSON, Joseph BULBULIA, Will GERVAIS, Russel D. GRAY, Joseph HENRICH, Martin LANG, M. Willis MONROE, Michael MUTHUKRISHNA, Ara NORENZAYAN, Benjamin Grant PURZYCKI, Azim SHARIFF, Edward SLINGERLAND, Rachel SPICER a Aiyana K. WILLARD. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2021, roč. 595, č. 7866, s. "E29"-"E34", 6 s. ISSN 0028-0836. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4. URL info
• XYGALATAS, Dimitrios, Peter MAŇO, Vladimír BAHNA, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Radek KUNDT, Martin LANG a John Hayward SHAVER. Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2021, roč. 42, č. 6, s. 524-533. ISSN 1090-5138. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.05.006. URL info
• SHAVER, John Hayward, Thomas AJ WHITE, Patrick VAKAOTI a Martin LANG. A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village. PLOS ONE. Public Library of Science, 2021, roč. 16, 10 October, s. 1-13. ISSN 1932-6203. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257160. URL info
• LANG, Martin. Multifunctional Religious Systems and Perturbed Dynamics of Psychological Wellbeing. Religion, Brain & Behavior. London: Routledge, 2020, roč. 10, č. 2, s. 179-184. ISSN 2153-5981. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2018.1532454. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems : A Proposition of Synthesis. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. Leiden-Boston-Koeln: Brill, 2020, roč. 32, č. 1, s. 1-46. ISSN 0943-3058. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341466. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. The role of ritual behaviour in anxiety reduction : an investigation of Marathi religious practices in Mauritius. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. LONDON: Royal Society, 2020, roč. 375, č. 1805, s. 1-8. ISSN 0962-8436. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0431. URL info
• NICHOLS, Aaron, Martin LANG, Christopher KAVANAGH, Radek KUNDT, Junko YAMADA, Dan ARIELY a Panagiotis MITKIDIS. Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest behavior. PLoS ONE. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, 2020, roč. 15, č. 8, s. 1-20. ISSN 1932-6203. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237007. URL info
• PURZYCKI, Benjamin Grant a Martin LANG. Identity fusion, outgroup relations, and sacrifice : A cross-cultural test. Cognition. Netherlands, 2019, roč. 186, NA, s. 1-6. ISSN 0010-0277. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.015. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Benjamin G PURZYCKI, Coren L APICELLA, Quentin D ATKINSON, Alexander BOLYANATZ, Emma COHEN, Carla HANDLEY, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Carolyn LESOROGOL, Sarah MATHEW, Rita A MCNAMARA, Cristina MOYA, Caitlyn D PLACEK, Montserrat SOLER, Thomas VARDY, Jonathan L WEIGEL, Aiyana K WILLARD, Dimitris XYGALATAS, Ara NORENZAYAN a Joseph HENRICH. Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. The Royal Society Publishing, 2019, roč. 286, č. 1898, s. 1-10. ISSN 0962-8452. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0202. URL info
• XYGALATAS, Dimitrios, Sammyh KHAN, Martin LANG, Radek KUNDT, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Jan KRÁTKÝ a John Hayward SHAVER. Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being. Current Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2019, roč. 60, č. 5, s. 699-707. ISSN 0011-3204. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/705665. URL info
• LANG, Martin. The evolutionary paths to collective rituals : An interdisciplinary perspective on the origins and functions of the basic social act. Archive for the Psychology of Religion. 2019, roč. 41, č. 3, s. 224-252. ISSN 0084-6724. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0084672419894682. URL info
• SHAVER, John Hayward, Martin LANG, Jan KRÁTKÝ, Eva KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Radek KUNDT a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. The Boundaries of Trust : Cross-Religious and Cross-Ethnic Field Experiments in Mauritius. Evolutionary Psychology. 2018, roč. 16, č. 4, s. 1-15. ISSN 1474-7049. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704918817644. URL info
• SHAVER, John Hayward, Susan DIVIETRO, Martin LANG a Richard SOSIS. Costs do not Explain Trust among Secular Groups. Journal of Cognition and Culture. Brill, 2018, roč. 18, 1-2, s. 180-204. ISSN 1567-7095. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340025. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. Can predictive coding explain past experiences? London: Routledge, 2017, 3 s. Religion, Brain & Behavior, roč. 7, č. 1, s. 71-73. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1150332. URL info
• LANG, Martin a Richard SOSIS. Uncertain Malinowski: The Importance of Preritual Stress Data. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2017, 3 s. Current Anthropology, roč. 58, č. 2, s. 276-278. ISSN 0011-3204. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Vladimír BAHNA, John Hayward SHAVER, Paul REDDISH a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Sync to link : Endorphin-mediated synchrony effects on cooperation. Biological Psychology. ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2017, roč. 127, July 2017, s. 191-197. ISSN 0301-0511. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.06.001. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Daniel Joel SHAW, Paul REDDISH, Sebastian Ernst WALLOT, Panagiotis MITKIDIS a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Lost in the Rhythm : Effects of Rhythm on Subsequent Interpersonal Coordination. Cognitive Science. 2016, roč. 40, č. 7, s. 1797-1815. ISSN 0364-0213. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12302. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Panagiotis MITKIDIS, Radek KUNDT, Aaron NICHOLS, Lenka KRAJČÍKOVÁ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Music as a sacred cue? Effects of religious music on moral behavior. Frontiers in Psychology. Lausanne: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016, roč. 7, č. 814, s. 1-13. ISSN 1664-1078. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00814. URL info
• XYGALATAS, Dimitrios a Martin LANG. Religion and Prosociality. Online. In Clements, Niki K. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Religion: Mental Religion. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016, s. 119-133. ISBN 978-0-02-866353-1. URL info
• PAZHOOHI, Farid, Martin LANG, Dimitrios XYGALATAS a Karl GRAMMER. Religious Veiling as a Mate-Guarding Strategy: Effects of Environmental Pressures on Cultural Practices. Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer International Publishing, 2016, roč. 3, č. 2, s. 118-124. ISSN 2198-9885. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40806-016-0079-z. URL info
• LANG, Martin, Jan KRÁTKÝ, John SHAVER, Danijela JEROTIJEVIĆ a Dimitrios XYGALATAS. Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior. Current Biology. London: Elsevier Science, 2015, roč. 25, č. 14, s. 1892-1897. ISSN 0960-9822. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.049. URL info

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