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Manos Tsakiris

@mtsakiris.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway & Director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings www.politics-of-feelings.com | Science Lead MSCA Network on Adolescence & Democracy www.ippad.eu | www.manostsakiris.org

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/08/2026
#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - The embodied roots of ideology: Interoceptive sensibility moderates the link between disgust sensitivity and political orientation - cup.org/4wFPml3 - @marianavonmohr.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social #FirstView
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
65:3 🐟️ Sore losers? 😓 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social use survey experiments after major U.S. elections to test whether reminding people of a party's loss, and their reactions to it 🤬, impacts their supportability 📣
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Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes - Volume 65 Issue 3
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Irena Arslanova @neuroirena.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
With wonderful @mjaglinska.bsky.social who spent a year working with me and @mtsakiris.bsky.social thanks to #FundaçãoBIAL Cardiac effects on perceived time less straightforward than we thought, but fearful faces felt shorter with enhanced N170 #TRFpaper @rhulpsychology.bsky.social DM for access
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Political emotions are not experienced as everyday emotions. They are felt differently in the body, are embodied differently according to our ideology and predict political participation. Our latest with @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh9maka
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As the UK prepares to lower the voting age to 16, our report on UK adolescents aged 12 to 17-years-old asks a major democratic question: how are adolescents approaching political life before they formally enter it? Full report can be found here : www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/zhbnbo...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The rise of ‘decline porn’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media
Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are hiring at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings www.politics-of-feelings.com for a part-time RA (ideal for people with BSc/MSc before they start their PhD) to help the Centre's research on emotions and politics. Please spread the word www.jobs.london.ac.uk/internal/Job... | Deadline 16/12
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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New article: "Mind over bias: How is cognitive control related to politically motivated reasoning?” Authors: Olaf Borghi (olafborghi.com‬), Ben Tappin (benmtappin.bsky.social), Kaat Smets, and Manos Tsakiris (@mtsakiris.bsky.social)www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...ll
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI. We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research! Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
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Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵
Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level was just advertised at my favourite department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word !
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Are some people more their bodies than others ? A question inspired by a quote from #IrisMurdoch. Short answer, yes ! See #interoception & #exteroception. A talk I gave at the wonderful @royalsociety.org symposium 'From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self' tinyurl.com/bdf8kcap
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level advertised at my favourite department (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word 👇
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
AI apparently mistook a student’s bag of Doritos for a gun & called police to tell them the pupil was armed. Taki Allen is Black. Could AI have the same bias found in humans during the Weapons Identification Task ? Get AI in the lab to better understand AI biases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Cortical and subcortical mapping (n=90) of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI, building up the same group’s earlier study on n=700 with 3 Tesla. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI - Nature Neuroscience
The brain is constantly monitoring the systems in the body. Here the authors use 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging to map a large-scale brain system for body regulation in humans, includin...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists launch $14.2 million project to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”
Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...
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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · 10/10/2025
🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
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Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece
Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
👏🙌🎉 Congratulations @olafborghi.com and all for a very fine paper looking at the intriguing and to some extent counterintuitive relations bwteeen young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes. More to come from Olaf so please watch this space !
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Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨New pre-print with @versteegenluca.bsky.social and @mtsakiris.bsky.social on emotions and polarization ⬇️ We often intuitively think that affective polarization (AP) is about strong negative emotions, e.g. fear & loathing. But how do citizens actually feel? Spoiler: not as negative as assumed!
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
20 years ago, with P Haggard we revisited the rubber hand illusion in a paper at JEP:HPP. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the journal & we were honoured to be invited to re-revisit our original paper for this anniversary issue psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Such a pleasure working with @neuroirena.bsky.social & @pollydalton.bsky.social on if and how cardiac signals impact attentional control 👇
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Mariana von Mohr @marianavonmohr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In previous work with Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social , we showed that interoception can act as a buffer against political stress. We now extend this research to the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, capturing data before and after Check out our preprint 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
That’s the correct link : www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Post-doctoral Fellow (Political Psychology/Political Science/ Social-Affective Neuroscience) at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings :London Senate House
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. Focus on health & politics is highly desirable. Info: Deadline 11th July. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Post-doctoral Fellow (Political Psychology/Political Science/ Social-Affective Neuroscience) at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings :London Senate House
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Recs for #EPSA2025 schedule: THU, 1.10-2.50, in 0A.05: I’ll chair a panel on conceptual issues in affective polarization, feat. @luismremiro.bsky.social, @mascakir.bsky.social, Mickael Temporão, @fghjorth.bsky.social, plus present work w @katharinalawall.bsky.social + @mtsakiris.bsky.social
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Applications for the MSc Applied Neuroscience @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are open: from cutting-edge brain science into real-world impact with hands-on training on fMRI, TMS, VR, EEG, and eye-tracking data. Apply by 20 Aug (International)/29 Aug (UK) tinyurl.com/MScNeuro | Please share!
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Focal brain damage effects on political behaviour, not on ideology. Political involvement was more intense after lesions to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex & posterior precuneus, less intense after lesions to the amygdala and anterior temporal lobe academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...
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From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society
Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Very proud of this excellent research led with great care, expertise and vision by @olafborghi.com as part of his Ph D for the www.ippad.eu project on adolescence and politics. Well done Olaf !
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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · 19/03/2025
In politics, people are not always truth seekers. Often, we reach conclusions because they fit with preferred political narratives: we are biased by ideological motivations. But are some people better equipped to overcome such bias than others? 🚨 Find out in the first pre-print from my PhD 🚨
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com from @financialtimes.com shows that Trump’s America and his supporters are a stark outlier from western Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere. In many cases, the Maga mindset is much closer to that of Vladimir Putin’s Russia or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thank you Masud for giving voice to the thoughts that many of us have. There are horror stories to share about travel agents contracted by universities. They cost more money & time as you say, and they often put at risk colleagues, especially women, who found themselves in dangerous situation
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Congratulations Lala! Looking forward to reading it
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
On emotions and politics, I often think that the core emotion that democracies should aim to protect us from is fear. Democracies should primarily enable us to live free from fear. More on Friday 31/01 👇| philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Politics of Fear
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
From 2017’s ‘alternative facts’ to 2025’s ‘hard’ (&) ‘right’ facts
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I hope this one will be fun and scary in equal measures. Thanks for inviting me @elisewoodard.bsky.social & @michaelhannon.bsky.social | do come along if you are around @senatehouselib.bsky.social / London
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Irena Arslanova @neuroirena.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm
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Does your heartbeat shape your sense of time?
Do you ever feel like time slows down when you’re bored but flies when you’re having fun? Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova explores the ways your brain and heart shape your perception of time,...
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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
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The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications
Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“A world of rising singledom is not necessarily any better or worse than one filled with couples and families, but it is fundamentally different to what has come before, with major social, economic and political implications. […] Is this what people really want? ” on.ft.com/4fWosfH
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Poor grammar is now a welcome sign of a brain and beating heart.”
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A new Lecturer position to join our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social A preference for candidates with expertise in functional neuroimaging in relevant areas (e.g. cognitive, social, affective, clinical neuroscience), but all other areas will also be considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...
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Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at Royal Holloway, University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Dorothy Cowie @dorothycowie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
@jamoffatt.bsky.social, we can’t wait to have you start! @mtsakiris.bsky.social & rhul crew, you are all welcome to visit ☺️
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Jamie Moffatt @jamoffatt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The flip side of that is sadly I'll be leaving @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and @mtsakiris.bsky.social LAB group, where I've made loads of friends and learned a bunch 🧡
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Polly Dalton @pollydalton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just back from a fascinating day discussing #humanfactors in accident investigations with the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences - interesting to see key cognitive factors like distraction and vigilance decrements coming up so frequently @roysocmed.bsky.social
Me (Polly Dalton) talking at a lectern next to a slide entitled “the balance of attentional control”. Some audience members are visible in the foreground.
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The Computational and Neural Dynamics of Human Motivation and Cognitive Control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Now published in PNAS! We had a survey in the field at the time of the first assassination attempt on Trump. We found that Rs became significantly less supportive of partisan violence and had increased in-party affect. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
'The Effect of Seeing Paintings or Photojournalistic Images Depicting Refugees on Their Infrahumanisation' , our most recent paper together with Ionela Bara for the ARTIS Project , published in Art & Perception brill.com/view/journal...
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