We are looking forward to everyone coming to Brno in July! Your timely registrations will help us prepare properly!

In our new paper, we aim to reconcile individual and group motivations for ritual performance and persistence through reinforcement learning. There are illustrations in the paper. I got to draw them! See Martin's post for deeper explanation and also for the link to free copies of the article!

Another great conference @ces2026.bsky.social! Thank you to all the organizers to making it possible!

🏆 John J. McGraw Award – IACESR 2026 We are delighted to announce this year’s awardees: 🎓Carmen María Callizo Romero — Religiosity, Not Size, Predicts Abstract Cognition in Sacred Spaces 🎓 Radim Chvaja — Is God Perceived as More Moralizing During War? Evidence from Ukraine #IACESR2026

Congratulations, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social!

How does religious conflict reshape moral cognition across cultures? We're hiring a postdoc to help answer that question using computational modeling (DDM, RL) across 20 countries. www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a... #Postdoc #CognitiveScience #ComputationalModeling #MoralPsychology

IACESR 2026 – 10th Biennial Meeting We’re excited to announce our keynote speakers: Will Gervais • Rebekah Richert • Quentin Atkinson • Larisa Heiphetz Solomon 📍 Brno, Czech Republic 📅 1–3 July 2026 | Masaryk University Registration open soon. Stay tuned. #IACESR2026 #CognitiveScienceOfReligion

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...

🚨Hiring 2 postdocs for 5-year interdisciplinary project!🚨 Please share🙏   Postdoc w/ experimental background in soc cognition bit.ly/CREDO_experi... Postdoc w/ computational modelling background in decision-making bit.ly/CREDO_modell...   Deadline 13.12.! #psychscisky 🧠 #CogSci #cogpsyc #socpsy