I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Maňo

I.2 - Name

Peter

I.3 - Degrees

M.A., Ph.D.

I.4 - Year of birth

11.05.1987

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
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	2019-current
Ethnographic methods	University of Connecticut	2022
Experimental methods	Masaryk University	2018-2020
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

15(Wos),10(Scopus)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

12(Wos),8(Scopus)

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

VI.1.a - Overall

251(google scholar)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

229 (google scholar)

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

VI.1.a - Overall

119(WoS), 144(Scopus)

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

103(WoS), 137(Scopus)

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., Kotherová, S., Maňo, P., Kundt, R., Cigán, J., Klocová, E. K., & Lang, M. (2017). Big Gods in small places: the Random Allocation Game in Mauritius. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8(2), 243–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267033

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

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

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

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

Slovak Academy of Sciences' Postdokgrant: postdoc researcher

Link: https://postdokgrant.sav.sk

Conspirituality: The merging of supernatural and conspiratory explanations

(Project VEGA 1/0724/23)

Slovak Academy of Sciences: researcher

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

Slovak Academy of Sciences: researcher

Evolutionary and cognitive research of religion

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

Masaryk University: researcher

Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion

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

Masaryk University: researcher

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

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

2025-04-01

Name and surname:	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