I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Maňo

I.2 - Name

Peter

I.3 - Degrees

M. A.

I.4 - Year of birth

1987

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Institute of social anthropology

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynské luhy 4

I.7 - Position

University lecturer - contractor

I.8 - E-mail address

mano1@fses.uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/70014?do=filterForm-submit&surname=mano&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyhľadať

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

sociology and social anthropology

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0003-3961-3157

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Univerzita Komenského

II.b - Year

2010

II.c - Study field and programme

sociology and social anthropology, social anthropology

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Queen's University Belfast

II.b - Year

2012

II.c - Study field and programme

Cognition and culture

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University

II.b - Year

2019

II.c - Study field and programme

sociology and social anthropology, social anthropology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Lecturer	Comenius University	2026-2027
Researcher	Slovak Academy of Sciences	2019-current
Researcher	Masaryk University	2024-current
Analyst	Slovak Acreditation Agency for Higher Education	2019-2022

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other	IV.b - Name of the institution	IV.c - Year
Anthropology of Uncertainty	Comenius University	2025
Cognitive and evolutionary explanations of rituals	Comenius University	2024
Ph.D. seminar	Slovak Academy of Sciences	2025
Ethnographic methods	University of Connecticut	2022
Experimental methods	Masaryk University	2022
Anthropology of religion	Comenius University	2013
Field data analysis	Comenius University	2014

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Anthropology of uncertainty	Social anthropology	2.	Sociology and social anthropoogy
Cognitive and evolutionary explanations of rituals	Social anthropology	2.	Sociology and social anthropology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

11(Scopus), 16(Wos)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

9(Scopus), 11(Wos)

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

314(google scholar)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

258 (google scholar)

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

191(Scopus), 163(WoS)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

180(Scopus), 137(WoS)

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Dimitris Xygalatas, Peter Maňo, Gabriela Baranowski Pinto,

Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of instrumental actions,

Cognition,

Volume 215,

2021,

104823,

ISSN 0010-0277,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104823.

Dimitris Xygalatas, Peter Maňo, Vladimír Bahna, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Martin Lang, John H. Shaver,

Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual,

Evolution and Human Behavior,

Volume 42, Issue 6,

2021,

Pages 524-533,

ISSN 1090-5138,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.05.006.

Xygalatas, D., & Maňo, P. (2022). Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus. Religion, 52(3), 429–449. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2022.2042418

XYGALATAS, D., MAŇO, P., LANG, M., KRÁTKÝ, J., & FISCHER, R. (2024). Emotional contagion in a collective ritual. In American Journal of Human Biology, 36(12), e24111. ISSN 1042-0533, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24111.

Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., Maňo, P., Kundt, R., & Xygalatas, D. (2022). Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12(1–2), 116–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006286

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Dimitris Xygalatas, Peter Maňo, Gabriela Baranowski Pinto,

Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of instrumental actions,

Cognition,

Volume 215,

2021,

104823,

ISSN 0010-0277,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104823.

Dimitris Xygalatas, Peter Maňo, Vladimír Bahna, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Radek Kundt, Martin Lang, John H. Shaver,

Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual,

Evolution and Human Behavior,

Volume 42, Issue 6,

2021,

Pages 524-533,

ISSN 1090-5138,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.05.006.

Xygalatas, D., & Maňo, P. (2022). Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus. Religion, 52(3), 429–449. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2022.2042418

Dimitris Xygalatas, Peter Maňo, Radek Kundt, Eva Kundtová-Klocová,

Rituals as signals of mate quality,

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology,

Volume 3,

2022,

100048,

ISSN 2666-6227,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100048.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

H. Clark Barrett,

Towards a Cognitive Science of the Human: Cross-Cultural Approaches and Their Urgency,

Trends in Cognitive Sciences,

Volume 24, Issue 8,

2020,

Pages 620-638,

ISSN 1364-6613,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.007.

Ge Erhao,

Chen Yuan,

Wu Jiajia and

Mace Ruth

(2019).

Large-scale cooperation driven by reputation, not fear of divine punishment.

R. Soc. Open Sci.6190991

http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190991

Zumeta LN, Castro-Abril P, Méndez L, Pizarro JJ, Włodarczyk A, Basabe N, Navarro-Carrillo G, Padoan-De Luca S, da Costa S, Alonso-Arbiol I, Torres-Gómez B, Cakal H, Delfino G, Techio EM, Alzugaray C, Bilbao M, Villagrán L, López-López W, Ruiz-Pérez JI, Cedeño CC, Reyes-Valenzuela C, Alfaro-Beracoechea L, Contreras-Ibáñez C, Ibarra ML, Reyes-Sosa H, Cueto RM, Carvalho CL, Pinto IR. Collective Effervescence, Self-Transcendence, and Gender Differences in Social Well-Being During 8 March Demonstrations. Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 11;11:607538. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607538. PMID: 33362666; PMCID: PMC7759529.

Guo, Q., Liu, Z., & Tian, Q. (2020). Religiosity and prosocial behavior at national level. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 12(1), 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel00001

Singh Purnima,

Tewari Shruti,

Kesberg Rebekka,

Karl Johannes Alfons,

Bulbulia Joseph and

Fischer Ronald

2020

Time investments in rituals are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: a longitudinal study of Diwali in two Indian communities

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

37520190430http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0430

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

Ritualization as a compensatory mechanism of uncertainty

(Project VEGA 2/0170/26)

Slovak Academy of Sciences: PI-deputy (postdoc)

Building a mobile toolkit to assess the religion-cooperation link

Templeton Religion Trust: collaborator

Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Aﬀects Normative Models in the Mind

Czech Science Foundation: JUNIOR STAR: postdoc researcher

The power of ritual: A study of ritual efficacy among Mauritian Hindus

Slovak Academy of Sciences' Postdokgrant: principal investigator (postdoctoral)

Link: https://postdokgrant.sav.sk

Conspirituality: The merging of supernatural and conspiratory explanations

(Project VEGA 1/0724/23)

Slovak Academy of Sciences: PI-deputy - postdoc researcher

Collective rituals as a tool of social regulation (Project VEGA 2/0102/19)

Slovak Academy of Sciences: doctoral/postdoc researcher

Evolutionary and cognitive research of religion

(Specific research EVAKON: MUNI/ A/1444/2020)

Masaryk University: doctoral researcher

Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion

(Project LEVYNA: CZ. 1.07/2.3.00/20.048)

Masaryk University: doctoral researcher

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
editor of Slovak Ethnology journal	Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, SAS	2024-2025
secretary of Academia Ethnologica et Anthropologica	Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, SAS	2022-2026
member	International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion	2026
member	Cultural Evolution Society	2026

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution	VIII.b - Address of the institution	VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay)	VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
University of Connecticut	Storrs, Connecticut, USA	09/2016 – 06/2018	Národný štipendijný program, Fulbright scholarship
University of Mauritius	Réduit, 80837 Mauritius	09/2015 – 05/2016	Masaryk University’s "Special Grant", "Freemover" scholarship, Comenius University’s PhD research mobility scholarship

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2026-02-28

Name and surname:	M. A. Peter Maňo
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava