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
- 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...
- 👏🙌🎉 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 !
- 🔍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...
- 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 💰
- That’s the correct link : 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!
- 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!
- 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 !
- @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/...
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- 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
- “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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- “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...
- Really excited to be heading back to Durham in January to start a post-doc with @dorothycowie.bsky.social! I'll be studying how children and adults adapt to altered bodies in virtual reality 🎉
- 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 🧡
- We will miss you @jamoffatt.bsky.social and we are grateful for all you brought to the Lab of Action & Body ! We are also excited to see you joining @dorothycowie.bsky.social 's amazing lab and look forward to your future research ! Congratulations!
- Starter packs are great, but they can only have 150 accounts on them. Check out my much larger list of Brain and Mind researchers here - and let me know if you would like to be added! #neuroskyence #psychscisky bsky.app/profile/mica...
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- Would also like to be added Micah. Many thanks
- '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...
I haven't come across one yet, so I ended up creating a political behavior starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/MUYzY5Pat://did:plc:6s52icfcdjcfnpfs2is27637/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbfbamtqw62j- Add me if you can Pavlo! Many thanks
- 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
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- “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...
- 😃😞😨😡😍 Studying Emotions in Policy & Politics? We organise an ECPR joint session in Prague, which aims to bring the #methods for studying emotions to the foreground of our papers and discussions. Paper proposals invited till 21 Nov! policysky PAsky ecpr.eu/JointSessions
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- 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...
- A pleasure to work with Mariana Von Mohr Kobi Hackenburg Katerina Fotopoulou, Michal Tanzer & Chloe Campbell on epistemic trust, dogmatism & our political leader choices
- "If you control enough of the information ecosystem, truth no longer matters." Disinformation has far reaching implications for society, including health. @martinmckee.bsky.social, @chrischirp.bsky.social, and Kent Buse outline the challenges and propose a way forward www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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- 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...
