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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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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 18d

We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey asking about your favourite fiction genre, interests, worries & coping styles.

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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.

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

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 John Drury, Linda J. Skitka, Jennifer A. Richeson, Samuel L. Perry, Laura K. Taylor, Elizabeth Stokoe, Efrén O. Pérez, Martin Lang

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.

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Reposted by Martin Lang, Madeleine Pownall

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

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Reposted by Uta Frith, Brian A. Nosek, Martín Haspelmath , and 9 more Uta Frith, Brian A. Nosek, Martín Haspelmath, Paul E. Smaldino, Martin Lang, Magnus Johansson, Ingo Rohlfing, Ewan Carr, Andrew Livingstone, Vinayak Sinha, Terry Gaasterland, Andreas Haupt

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.

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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...

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

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

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Reposted by Nathan Nunn, Paul E. Smaldino, Alex Mesoudi , and 4 more Nathan Nunn, Paul E. Smaldino, Alex Mesoudi, Martin Lang, Luke Rendell, Alberto Acerbi, Erol Akçay

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.

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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."

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Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social · May 24

Who needs fancy R packages for graphs, when you can plot them in the sand? Many thanks to @martinlangcz.bsky.social for teaching today's class at our field school in Mauritius

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · May 19

This highlights the point that comparisons between humans and machines are continually muddied by a lack of distinction between evolution and development, both of which contribute to learning in the broad sense.

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · May 1

Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University

www.muni.cz

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Reposted by Martin Lang, Marcos Vera‐Hernández

Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Apr 18

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU

The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...

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Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social · Apr 11

Can religious beliefs shape peoples' attitudes and behaviours regarding climate change?

We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)

In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Associations between religiosity and climate change beliefs and behaviours in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Individual actions are crucial to mitigating the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the factors shaping individuals’ climate beliefs and behaviours is therefore essential to help en...

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Apr 11

Yes, we used them for both kids, liked that they are unscented

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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · Apr 7

And: I'm hiring a post-doc! I'm looking for someone with a strong computational background who can start in the summer (or sooner). Details here: apply.interfolio.com/165122

Feel free to reach out with questions (email is best: [email protected]) and please share widely!

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Reposted by Ruth Mace, Alex Mesoudi, Martin Lang , and 1 more Ruth Mace, Alex Mesoudi, Martin Lang, Jean‐Baptiste André

Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality.
Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Frankly, that was one of the most surprising thing when I moved to the US 10 years ago. I asked my landlords for an account number to send them rent and they had no idea what I mean

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Mar 11

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢

Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London

A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.

www.brunel.ac.uk

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Feb 17

Sorry no PhD positions at the moment, but thanks for your interest!

Reposted by Martin Lang, Jean‐Baptiste André, Jonathan Phillips

Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · Feb 12

🚨 Now accepting commentary proposals!! 🚨Thrilled to share that our paper --- "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" --- was accepted for publication at Behavioral and Brain Sciences and is open for commentary!

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Reposted by Martin Lang, Jean‐Baptiste André

Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · Feb 11

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies?

Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵
w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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Reposted by Davide Consoli, Martin Lang, Sally Wiggins , and 2 more Davide Consoli, Martin Lang, Sally Wiggins, Martin van Gelderen, Éric Morier-Genoud

Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Feb 6

Postdoc position available in our team!

We are testing a computational model explaining the decision-making process during in normative/moral situations while incorporating the formative role of culture in this process.

www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

#socialpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#cogpsyc

Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University

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Reposted by Alex Mesoudi, Martin Lang

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Feb 5

Doing violence to reality: Theoretical models of cultural evolution: http://osf.io/9j65p_v1/

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Paul Vanags @paulvanags.bsky.social · Feb 4

New paper! Greater (objective and subjective) wealth is consistently associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries. Resource scarcity (precarity) also has an effect. bit.ly/410jni3
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Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries

Abstract. Prosocial preferences and behaviors—defined as those that benefit others—are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively

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