Ritual efficacy · supernatural beliefs · uncertainty
Researcher working on supernatural beliefs, ritual efficacy, magic, religious identity, conspiracy beliefs, pattern perception and judgement under uncertainty.
Silvia’s work anchors the cognitive-science-of-religion part of XPhiRel: how people judge whether rituals work, how group membership changes those judgments, and how supernatural causality is embedded in social identity.
Overview
Her broader publication record also includes work on affective displays, pattern perception, statistics, human-computer interaction and modelling of human judgement. Those methods connect naturally with the study of religious cognition and supernatural beliefs.
Publications
- 2026Hermann Prossinger, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, Daniel Říha, Heinz Steltzer, Jakub Binter (2026). When Simulation and Training Saves Lives: Bayesian Statistics Identifies Clusters of Traumatic Brain Injury Victims and the Resulting Survival Likelihood Functions. Communications in Computer and Information Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-12764-8_4.
- 2026Silvia Boschetti, Robin Kopecký, Jakub Binter, Lenka Příplatová, Konrad Talmont-Kaminski (2026). Black and White Magic: Efficacy of In-Group versus Out-Group Rituals. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2026.2696005.
- 2025Alicja Zawistowska, Robin Kopecký, Lenka Příplatová, Silvia Boschetti, Konrad Talmont-Kamiński, Jaroslav Flegr (2025). Superstitions, Religious Identity, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs in Secularized Czechia. Journal of Religion in Europe. DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10110.
- 2025Hermann Prossinger, Daniel Říha, Violetta Prossinger-Beck, Silvia Boschetti, Jakub Binter (2025). Automated Facial Mark Creating Systems Replace Classical Geometric Morphometrics: An Example of How New Technology Can and Should Drive Avatar Creation in a Game Development Pipeline. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76812-5_26.
- 2024Jakub Binter, Daniel Říha, Silvia Boschetti, Violetta Prossinger-Beck, Martin Stachoň, Hermann Prossinger (2024). Navigating Between Human and Machine-Based Evaluation: Judgment and Objectivity in Economic Games Exemplified in the Analysis of MMA Fights. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60692-2_16.
- 2024Hermann Prossinger, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, Daniel Říha, Violetta Prossinger-Beck, Thomas Beck, Jakub Binter (2024). Who is the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) Formula One Racer—Hamilton, Schumacher, Verstappen, Vettel, or Some Other Driver, Perhaps Fangio? Statistical Analyses Provide Answers and Information for Game Designers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60692-2_6.
- 2024Jakub Binter, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, Daniel Říha, Hermann Prossinger (2024). Why the Wilhelm Scream, One of the Most Well-Known “Easter Egg” Sound Effects in Video Games, is Used, and How to Test Participants’ Extent of Assessment by Using a Bayesian Statistical Approach. Communications in Computer and Information Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49212-9_16.
- 2023Silvia Boschetti, Hermann Prossinger, Tomáš Hladký, Daniel Říha, Lenka Příplatová, Robin Kopecký, Jakub Binter (2023). Are Patterns Game for Our Brain? AI Identifies Individual Differences in Rationality and Intuition Characteristics of Respondents Attempting to Identify Random and Non-random Patterns. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35979-8_12.
- 2023Hermann Prossinger, Silvia Boschetti, Daniel Říha, Libor Pacovský, Jakub Binter (2023). From Stone Age to New Age Statistics: How Neural Networks Overcome the Irreproducibility Problems in Choice Based Profile Creation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35979-8_22.
- 2023Silvia Boschetti, Hermann Prossinger, Violetta Prossinger-Beck, Tomáš Hladký, Daniel Říha, Jakub Binter (2023). Never Correct: The Novel Analysis of Differing Visual (Facial Expression) and Acoustic (Vocalization) Bimodal Displays of the Affective States “Pain”, “Pleasure”, and “Neutral”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35979-8_11.
- 2023Jakub Binter, Hermann Prossinger, Tomáš Hladký, Silvia Boschetti (2023). "Wow!" and "Aah": Bimodal Stimuli of Affective States with High and Low Intensity Displays. Center for Open Science. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/p7aw3.
- 2023Silvia Boschetti, Jakub Binter, Hermann Prossinger (2023). Apoidolia: A New Psychological Phenomenon Detected by Pattern Creation with Image Processing Software Together with Dirichlet Distributions and Confusion Matrices. Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31164-2_22.
- 2022Hermann Prossinger, Tomáš Hladký, Silvia Boschetti, Daniel Říha, Jakub Binter (2022). Determination of “Neutral”–“Pain”, “Neutral”–“Pleasure”, and “Pleasure”–“Pain” Affective State Distances by Using AI Image Analysis of Facial Expressions. Technologies. DOI: 10.3390/technologies10040075.
- 2022Silvia Boschetti, Hermann Prossinger, Tomáš Hladký, Kamila Machová, Jakub Binter (2022). “Eye can’t see the difference”: Facial Expressions of Pain, Pleasure, and Fear Are Consistently Rated Due to Chance. Human Ethology. DOI: 10.22330/he/37/046-072.
- 2022Jakub Binter, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, Hermann Prossinger, Timothy Jason Wells, Jiřina Jílková, Daniel Říha (2022). A ‘Serious Games’ Approach to Decisions of Environmental Impact of Energy Transformation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05637-6_31.
- 2022Jakub Binter, Silvia Boschetti, Tomáš Hladký, Hermann Prossinger, Timothy Jason Wells, Jiřina Jílková, Daniel Říha (2022). Quantifying the Rating Performance of Ambiguous and Unambiguous Facial Expression Perceptions Under Conditions of Stress by Using Wearable Sensors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17615-9_36.
- 2022Robin Kopecky, Lenka Příplatová, Silvia Boschetti, Konrad Talmont-Kaminski, Jaroslav Flegr (2022). Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of latent toxoplasmosis on political beliefs and values. Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/t24rn.
- 2022Jakub Binter, Tomáš Hladký, Kamila Machová, Daniel Říha, Silvia Boschetti (2022). Validation of BIS/BAS, SIS/SES-SF and SOI-R Questionnaires in Two Czech Samples. Center for Open Science. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vca7u.
- 2021Hermann Prossinger, Tomas Hladky, Jakub Binter, Silvia Boschetti, Daniel Riha (2021). Visual Analysis of Emotions Using AI Image-Processing Software: Possible Male/Female Differences between the Emotion Pairs “Neutral”–“Fear” and “Pleasure”–“Pain”. Proceedings of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference. DOI: 10.1145/3453892.3461656.
- 2019Robin Kopecky, Silvia Boschetti, Jaroslav Flegr (2019). Effect of being religious on wellbeing in a predominantly atheist country: Explorative study on wellbeing, fitness, physical and mental health. Center for Open Science. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3kr6n.
Public talks & media
- 2023Black and white magic: efficacy of in-group versus out-group ritualsReligion and the Mind 2023
- 2022Effect of Religious Affiliation on Assessment of Ritual EfficacyRituals Between Mind and Society
- 2021The bounds of religious cognitionGAČR project team