Manos Tsakiris
Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway & Director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings politics-of-feelings.com | Science Lead MSCA Network on Adolescence & Democracy www.ippad.eu | https://www.manostsakiris.org
- 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
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisNew 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
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisWe 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...
- Reposted by Manos Tsakiris🌎 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 👇🧵
- 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 !
- 🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- 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
- 'From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self' organized by @sarahgarf.bsky.social @awykowska.bsky.social Tony Prescott & Paul Verschure to whom I am grateful for the invitation royalsociety.org/science-even...
- 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 👇
- 🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- 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...
- 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...
- These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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- 👏🙌🎉 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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- 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...
- Such a pleasure working with @neuroirena.bsky.social & @pollydalton.bsky.social on if and how cardiac signals impact attentional control 👇
- No effect of cardiac signals on conflict resolution, but evidence for systolic enhancement of phasic alerting 🫀🧠 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... w @pollydalton.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social @biolpsychology.bsky.social 📄 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social 🏡 @erc.europa.eu 💰
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- 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!
- 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...
- 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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- 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!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 !
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisIn 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 🚨
- @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.
- 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
- Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Congratulations Lala! Looking forward to reading it
- 🚨My small book with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨 shorturl.at/jZyPz *The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
- 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/...
- From 2017’s ‘alternative facts’ to 2025’s ‘hard’ (&) ‘right’ facts
- 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
- 📢"The Politics of Fear" on Jan 31 @ Senate House. Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion on fear from journalism, cultural history, psychology, & political theory. Ft. @philtinline.bsky.social, @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social, & @jleadermaynard.bsky.social
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisMy TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisI 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
- Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
- “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
- “Poor grammar is now a welcome sign of a brain and beating heart.”
- Our department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has a starter pack for you all go.bsky.app/9en5Po4at://did:plc:jojqxsm4wfumqlpv7zilwtrb/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbcp4ktmb62y
- 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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- Reposted by Manos TsakirisFunded 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...
- Reposted by Manos TsakirisNow 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/...
- '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...
- Work that follows on from a paper we published a few years ago on the political consequences of the visual dehumanization of refugees in photojournalism www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our department has just joined! Welcome @rhulpsychology.bsky.social !
- Hello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Cruise escape from Trump: “The one-year package is called Escape From Reality and the two-year package is called Mid-term Selection. The three-year package is called Anywhere but Home and the four-year package is called Skip Forward.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
- Politics affect our health (think US elections). With M Von Mohr, we show that better body-awareness make us more resilient to the negative health impact of politics, without a cost to our political engagement. & We replicate this before & after the 2024 Presidential election t.co/k9Tt1xnpVm
- The preprint refers to our 2022 US midterm elections. Paper on 2024 US Presidential Election coming soon. Stay tuned
- “In four generations children have gone from roaming up to six miles from home to an average of just 300 yards.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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- Reposted by Manos TsakirisCheck out this project and please help us share widely!
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- Reposted by Manos Tsakiris@elijfinkel.bsky.social and @nourkteily.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc for their new Center for Enlightened Disagreement: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw== Come join an amazing group of interdisciplinary researchers at Northwestern U, Kellogg School of Management!
- I have strong views on the topic but I hear that #bluesky is a nice place and don’t want to cause problems. Nice to be here , feels like the old days www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
- US: Trump 14-point among men aged 18-29, Harris 18-point win among women. Germany: men 18-29 twice as likely to vote for hard-right AfD than women. UK: young men were more likely to vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK (12% to 6%). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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- A pleasure to work with Mariana Von Mohr Kobi Hackenburg Katerina Fotopoulou, Michal Tanzer & Chloe Campbell on epistemic trust, dogmatism & our political leader choices
- AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones (it’s great when our recent research is replicated, and it’s even better when this new independent work is so well done !) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- With Rafaelle Tucciarelli, Neza Vehar and Shamil Chandaria we recently showed AI faces are more likely to perceived as real faces than faces of real humans. The word by Miller and colleagues goes in greater depth as to why with cool data drive approaches www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
