Jan Krátký
Biographic Data
| ID | 100555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Krátký |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Krátký |
| SIGNATURE | KRÁTKÝ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6581-4537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ritual Explained: Some Issues and Challenges for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Study of Rituals
This commentary highlights the important contributions of the target book to the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion and identifies several issues and challenges that should be addressed in future work. The crucial challenges pertain to the need for more thorough theoretical modeling of what religious beliefs add to the effects of ritual behavior, the need for longitudinal studies of mundane but frequently performed individual rituals, a…
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures, by E. Thomas Lawson
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures, by E. Thomas Lawson. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Scientific Studies of Religion Inquiry and Explanation. 184 pp. $21.56. ISBN: 9781350355880
Emotional contagion in a collective ritual
Collective gatherings are often associated with the alignment of psychophysiological states between members of a crowd. While the process of emotional contagion has been studied extensively in dyads as well as at the population level, our understanding of its operation and dynamics as they unfold in real time in real‐world group contexts remains limited. Employing a naturalistic design, we investigated emotional contagion in a public religious ri…
Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making
Employing an incentivized controlled lab experiment, we investigate the effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes related to (i) risk preferences, (ii) rule violation, and (iii) exploratory attitude. As evolutionary psychology suggests, these outcomes may play an important role in economic decision-making and represent behavioral aspects that may systematically vary over the menstrual cycle to increase the reproductive success. Ex…
The awe-prosociality relationship: Evidence for the role of context
People in a state of awe have been found to perceive their needs as small while also expressing intentions to act in a prosocial way, benefitting others at personal cost. However, these findings come largely out of the USA and have focused on intended rather than real prosocial behavior. We propose a contextual model of the awe-prosociality relationship predicated on the constructed theory of emotion, according to which emotion categories and cos…
Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being
Extreme ritual practices involving pain and suffering pose significant risks such as injury, trauma, or infection. Nonetheless, they are performed by millions of people around the world and are often culturally prescribed remedies for a variety of maladies, and especially those related to mental health. What is the actual impact of these practices on health? Combining ethnographic observations and psychophysiological monitoring, we investigated o…
Ritual ecology
In agreement with 'the material turn' in the humanities and social sciences and informed by psychological studies of priming, the authors argue that human action can be deeply influenced by objects and other features of the environment coordinated by ritual practices. They suggest that the moods and behaviors catalyzed by an effective ritual result from a 'mangle' of human and material agencies. But this mangle is not the result of an accidental …
Religious statues and personhood: Testing the Role of Materiality
"Religious statues and personhood: testing the role of materiality." Material Religion, 12(3), pp. 388–389
Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being
Extreme ritual practices involving pain and suffering pose significant risks such as injury, trauma, or infection. Nonetheless, they are performed by millions of people around the world and are often culturally prescribed remedies for a variety of maladies, and especially those related to mental health. What is the actual impact of these practices on health? Combining ethnographic observations and psychophysiological monitoring, we investigated o…
Ritual ecology
In agreement with 'the material turn' in the humanities and social sciences and informed by psychological studies of priming, the authors argue that human action can be deeply influenced by objects and other features of the environment coordinated by ritual practices. They suggest that the moods and behaviors catalyzed by an effective ritual result from a 'mangle' of human and material agencies. But this mangle is not the result of an accidental …
Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making
Employing an incentivized controlled lab experiment, we investigate the effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes related to (i) risk preferences, (ii) rule violation, and (iii) exploratory attitude. As evolutionary psychology suggests, these outcomes may play an important role in economic decision-making and represent behavioral aspects that may systematically vary over the menstrual cycle to increase the reproductive success. Ex…
Religious statues and personhood: Testing the Role of Materiality
"Religious statues and personhood: testing the role of materiality." Material Religion, 12(3), pp. 388–389
Ritual ecology
In agreement with 'the material turn' in the humanities and social sciences and informed by psychological studies of priming, the authors argue that human action can be deeply influenced by objects and other features of the environment coordinated by ritual practices. They suggest that the moods and behaviors catalyzed by an effective ritual result from a 'mangle' of human and material agencies. But this mangle is not the result of an accidental …
Effects of Extreme Ritual Practices on Psychophysiological Well-Being
Extreme ritual practices involving pain and suffering pose significant risks such as injury, trauma, or infection. Nonetheless, they are performed by millions of people around the world and are often culturally prescribed remedies for a variety of maladies, and especially those related to mental health. What is the actual impact of these practices on health? Combining ethnographic observations and psychophysiological monitoring, we investigated o…
The awe-prosociality relationship: Evidence for the role of context
People in a state of awe have been found to perceive their needs as small while also expressing intentions to act in a prosocial way, benefitting others at personal cost. However, these findings come largely out of the USA and have focused on intended rather than real prosocial behavior. We propose a contextual model of the awe-prosociality relationship predicated on the constructed theory of emotion, according to which emotion categories and cos…
Ovulatory shift, hormonal changes, and no effects on incentivized decision-making
Employing an incentivized controlled lab experiment, we investigate the effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes related to (i) risk preferences, (ii) rule violation, and (iii) exploratory attitude. As evolutionary psychology suggests, these outcomes may play an important role in economic decision-making and represent behavioral aspects that may systematically vary over the menstrual cycle to increase the reproductive success. Ex…
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures, by E. Thomas Lawson
Imagining the Cognitive Science of Religion: Magic Bullets, Complex Theories, Experimental Adventures, by E. Thomas Lawson. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. Scientific Studies of Religion Inquiry and Explanation. 184 pp. $21.56. ISBN: 9781350355880
Emotional contagion in a collective ritual
Collective gatherings are often associated with the alignment of psychophysiological states between members of a crowd. While the process of emotional contagion has been studied extensively in dyads as well as at the population level, our understanding of its operation and dynamics as they unfold in real time in real‐world group contexts remains limited. Employing a naturalistic design, we investigated emotional contagion in a public religious ri…
Ritual Explained: Some Issues and Challenges for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Study of Rituals
This commentary highlights the important contributions of the target book to the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion and identifies several issues and challenges that should be addressed in future work. The crucial challenges pertain to the need for more thorough theoretical modeling of what religious beliefs add to the effects of ritual behavior, the need for longitudinal studies of mundane but frequently performed individual rituals, a…
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive science of religion (2 works)