Adam Barnett
Extreme Rituals – Dimitris Xygalatas CERC Interview series
Why do people engage in painful, costly, and even dangerous religious rituals? Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas, director of Masaryk University’s LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, draws on fieldwork in Mauritius to explain.
Joe Henrich on Science for the People
#220 Community Specific Science – This week, we’re looking at the ways that science and medicine impact specific communities. We’ll speak to biologist and science educator Danielle N. Lee about the state of science journalism at media sources that serve minority audiences. Microbiologist and public health researcher Rebecca Kreston explains why (and how) some diseases […]
Cooperation in Humans Workshop – June 2013
Look at the lovely poster! Cooperation in Humans Thursday, June 6, 2013 Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Reception 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Lecture The Puzzles of Human Cooperation Dr. Robert Boyd School of Human Evolution and Social Change Arizona State University, Tempe AZ […]
CERC Plenary Meeting – May 2013
A Year of Progress in CERC’s Scientific Study of Religion by Ryan Nichols CERC concluded the academic year with a conference drawing together affiliates of the grant from across the world. Special efforts were made to bring humanities scholars of religion into the conversation. A total of 67 researchers attended the conference and 50 of […]
Jonathan Phillips and Joe Henrich on “The Mind Report”
Jonathan Phillips (Yale University) and Joe Henrich (University of British Columbia) were recently on The Mind Report, discussing WEIRDness, the markets and morality, and religion.
Homo Experimentalis: The Place of Experimentation in the Scientific Study of Religion
In October 2012, the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA) and the Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University, in conjunction with the Czech Association for the Study of Religions (CASR), hosted a conference entitled Homo Experimentalis in Brno.
This View of Life: Major Forum Clarifies Nature of Cultural Evolution
Edward Slingerland, Joseph Bulbulia, and Armin Geertz on the Cultural Evolution of Religion.
Experimental Methods in the Study of Cognition and Culture – summer workshop at Aarhus University
The interface between culture and cognition is a fast-developing research area attracting numerous scholars and scientists with different backgrounds. Neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and humanists of various sorts seek to find out how evolved cognitive capacities, cultural learning and social and institutional forms interact to constrain, or even produce, human behavior. [more]
Mauritian Laboratory for Experimental Anthropology website launches
MALEXA is an Aarhus University research structure dedicated to methodological innovation and integration in the study of culture. By combining in-depth qualitative and quantitative research with experimental work, it seeks to pioneer new methods and facilitate international cross-disciplinary synergies, offering a new research paradigm in the study of human behaviour.