Manos Tsakiris
@mtsakiris.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway & Director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings https://www.politics-of-feelings.com/ | Science Lead MSCA Network on Adolescence & Democracy www.ippad.eu | https://www.manostsakiris.org
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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
Authors: Olaf Borghi (olafborghi.com), Ben Tappin (benmtappin.bsky.social), Kaat Smets, and Manos Tsakiris (@mtsakiris.bsky.social)www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...ll
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
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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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...
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...
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
www.jobbnorge.no
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
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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🌎 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 👇🧵
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 👇🧵
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌎 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 👇🧵
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...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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 !
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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November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
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...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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 👇
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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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...
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...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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...
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 ...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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🔍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...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
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.
advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🔍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...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
👏🙌🎉 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 !
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...
Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...
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.
advances.in
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
👏🙌🎉 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 !
Olaf so please watch this space !
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🚨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!
🚨Pre-print alert🚨
Research shows citizens in many Western democracies are increasingly affectively polarized––they feel warm toward their own party but quite cold toward opposing parties.
But how does it feel to “feel warmly”?
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social & I asked.
🧵1/8
Research shows citizens in many Western democracies are increasingly affectively polarized––they feel warm toward their own party but quite cold toward opposing parties.
But how does it feel to “feel warmly”?
@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social & I asked.
🧵1/8
August 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨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!
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...
August 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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 💰
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
w @pollydalton.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social
@biolpsychology.bsky.social 📄
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social 🏡
@erc.europa.eu 💰
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Such a pleasure working with @neuroirena.bsky.social & @pollydalton.bsky.social on if and how cardiac signals impact attentional control 👇
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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 👇
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Check out our preprint 👇
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July 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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...
Check out our preprint 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
That’s the correct link :
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July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That’s the correct link :
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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. Focus on health & politics is highly desirable. Info:
Deadline 11th July. Please share!
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Deadline 11th July. Please share!
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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
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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!
Deadline 11th July. Please share!
jobs.london.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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!
Deadline 11th July. Please share!
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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
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
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
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
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)
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June 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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)
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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
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March 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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...
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...
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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March 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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 !
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 🚨
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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 Tsakiris
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 🚨
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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 🚨
@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.
March 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
@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.