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Martin Lang
@martinlangcz.bsky.social
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Cognitive and evolutionary science of human cooperation with particular interest in signaling, ritual, and religion.

Assist Prof at LEVYNA, Masaryk Uni
www.martinlang.cz


#CogEvoSciRel

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Gordon Pennycook, Martin Lang

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 2d
Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 5d
Evidence for a “Breaking Bad” effect of a cancer diagnosis—>
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 5d
Look at how being diagnosed with cancer impacts people's involvement in crime!

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 5d
This is who runs this account

Reposted by Martin Lang, Ingo Rohlfing, Samuel Coavoux , and 1 more

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 12d
New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....
Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager
Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager
pedermisager.org

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · 18d
New paper - we try to test a classic secularization theory w/ longitudinal data: is material security in early adolescence associated with later decrease in belief in God in young adulthood?

tl;dr: it is, a little bit..

w/ @lnpx1thetadelta.bsky.social & R.Chvaja

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans - Volume 8
www.cambridge.org

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · 27d
We’re organizing IACESR 2026 in Brno (July 1–3) — CFP closes Feb 6.

If you work on cognitive or evolutionary approaches to religion, we’d be very happy to welcome you in Brno :)

Reposted by Martin Lang, Magnus Johansson, Patrick S. Forscher , and 3 more

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Jan 7
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, Martin Lang, Dimitris Xygalatas

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Aiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social · Jan 6
IACESR call for paper closes Feb 6th. Come join us to talk about the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion in Brno in July! iacesr.com/conferences/
Conferences - IACESR
We are delighted to announce that the 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR) will be held at Masaryk University in Brno...
iacesr.com

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Dec 5
He once told me he is usually cited as "(but see Szamado et al.)" after Zahavi citation and that's the extent of engagement with his work for most people🤷

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Eli Stark-Elster @eselster.bsky.social · Dec 2
In a new Review for @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social -- and my first first-authored paper! -- @manvir.bsky.social and I argue that experience shapes the emergence and evolution of seemingly extraordinary beliefs.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs
The ubiquity of extraordinary beliefs across human societies, such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and supernatural beliefs, is a long-standing…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, Martin Lang, David W. Lawson

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Dec 2
1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉

📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures?
🧪🏺

#evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill, Martin Lang, Larry W. Hunter , and 1 more

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · Nov 13
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Nov 4
A great opportunity for ECRs studying ritual!

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Nov 4
Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...

#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
www.prio.org

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Matthew I. Billet @matthewibillet.bsky.social · Oct 22
New pre-print analyzing 25,000 Christian sermon transcripts across the USA. Churches account for most systematic variance in sermon content, geographic region accounts for none. We identify niches in sermon content that may guide religious competition in USA.

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Oct 17
In our new paper, we show why religious signals can serve as reliable markers of commitment: insiders perceive both cooperative and supernatural benefits in participation, but outsiders—who don’t share those supernatural expectations—see no comparable gains, making the signal not worhtwile
kundtova.bsky.social Eva Kundtová Klocová @kundtova.bsky.social · Oct 17
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.

👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Person with metal skewers in their back during Thaipusam Kavadi, between emojis symbolizing perceived health benefits and physical pain.

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Eva Kundtová Klocová @kundtova.bsky.social · Oct 17
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.

👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Person with metal skewers in their back during Thaipusam Kavadi, between emojis symbolizing perceived health benefits and physical pain.

Reposted by Martin Lang

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · Sep 30
If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network
Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...
docs.google.com

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · Sep 23
We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey asking about your favourite fiction genre, interests, worries & coping styles.

brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We're trying to better understand how engagement with fiction relates to how you engage with the world - let us know!
Research poster which says: "What does your favourite literary genre say about you? Help us find out! This 10-15 minute survey for an Oxford Brookes University research project asks questions about books you like to read/listen to, as well as some of your interests, worries & coping styles. https://tinyurl.com/Brookesfictionsurvey" on a background image of books.

Reposted by Martin Lang, Michael W. Kraus, Matt N Williams

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 30
PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!

Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)

#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jul 21
Book symposium for Jesper Sørensen’s *Why Cultures Persist* posted online at Religion, Brain and Behavior. With commentaries from, among others, RCC’s Anders Klostergaard Petersen and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social.

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Latest articles from Religion, Brain & Behavior
Browse the latest articles and research from Religion, Brain & Behavior
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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Jul 18
Great stuff! Is there a non-paywalled version please?

Reposted by John Drury, Linda J. Skitka, Jennifer A. Richeson , and 5 more

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Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social · Jul 17
Now out in JPSP! Behavioral economic experiments w/ Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews in the U.S., Israel and Fiji show that belief in God can facilitate cooperation, even across religious divides! More about our work (co-led with @jeremyginges.bsky.social) below! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Screenshot of title and abstract of paper, "In their God we trust: Religious Cognition increases cooperation across religious divides." Abstract: Belief in moralizing Gods is widely thought to foster cooperation between coreligionists, but there is disagreement regarding whether this effect is limited to the religious ingroup or if it extends to members of religious outgroups. Here we report the results of a cross-cultural research program that demonstrates that people who think about God (a) are more trusted by both coreligionists and members of other religious groups and (b) typically behave in a more trustworthy manner toward both ingroups and outgroups. We ran three preregistered studies (N= 1,784) with Christians and Muslims in the United States, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Christians and Hindus in Fiji. Our contexts varied in multiple ways, including the level of intergroup conflict. Using two-player trust games involving real money, we varied whether participants interacted with ingroup or outgroup members and whether reciprocators considered God when deciding how much to return to trustors. We nd in each context that making moralizing God beliefs of one player salient enhances both intragroup and intergroup cooperation. Our ndings add to a nascent literature documenting the potential for religious cognition to extend moral norms across intergroup divides. We discuss implications for theories of the emergence of moralizing Gods and implications for public debates about religious pluralism in diverse societies.

Reposted by Martin Lang, Madeleine Pownall

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · Jul 16
PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub
Fate of PCI recommended preprint
YouTube video by Peer Community In
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Reposted by Uta Frith, Brian A. Nosek, Martín Haspelmath , and 10 more

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 9
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org

Reposted by Martin Lang, Mohammad Atari

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 23
HBES is happy to recognize the following Rising Stars (<8 years post-PhD) for their research contributions:
Mohammad Atari: mohammadatari.com
Catherine Molho: catherinemolho.github.io
Daniel Redhead: www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.re...
Julia Stern: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

Reposted by Martin Lang, Matti Vuorre, James E. Bartlett

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · Jun 12
Folks, it's time to submit your papers to PCI Psychology. Here is our invitation to you, taken from our editorial osf.io/preprints/ps...
A screenshot from the PCI Psychology editorial

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jun 11
Free online for the next two weeks: @bgpurzycki.bsky.social‘s *Morality and the Gods*. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Morality and the Gods
Cambridge Core - Applied Psychology - Morality and the Gods
www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Nathan Nunn, Paul E. Smaldino, Alex Mesoudi , and 4 more

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Jun 9
New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management
The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.
timwaring.info

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 6
#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab.

Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr
Illustration of two people, one holding a large pencil, the other walking along a path of diverging arrows. Hedline is "Rules all PIs should follow."