About the Authors

Ronald Fischer

ronald.fischer@vuw.ac.nz

Affiliations Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research & School of Psychology, Victoria University Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Dimitris Xygalatas

Affiliations LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Interactive Minds Centre (IMC), Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Panagiotis Mitkidis

Affiliations Interactive Minds Centre (IMC), Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Center for Advanced Hindsight, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Centre for Organizational Architecture, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Paul Reddish

Affiliation LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Penny Tok

Affiliation LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Ivana Konvalinka

Affiliations Cognitive Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Joseph Bulbulia

Affiliations LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, Victoria University Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF DX PM PR JB. Performed the experiments: RF DX PM PR PT IK JB. Analyzed the data: RF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RF DX PM PR JB. Wrote the paper: RF.