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Katharina Lawall @katharinalawall.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨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!

Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨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.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Aug 5

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 · Jul 25

Such a pleasure working with @neuroirena.bsky.social & @pollydalton.bsky.social on if and how cardiac signals impact attentional control 👇

Irena Arslanova @neuroirena.bsky.social · Jul 24

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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Mariana von Mohr @marianavonmohr.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

OSF

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jul 1

That’s the correct link :
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jul 1

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...

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

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jul 1

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!

jobs.london.ac.uk

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · Jun 24

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 · Jun 25

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 · Mar 27

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 · Mar 24

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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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Mar 19

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 !

Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · Mar 19

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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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · Mar 19

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 · Mar 9

@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 · Mar 7

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

Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Mar 4

Congratulations Lala! Looking forward to reading it

Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨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

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 21

Ft. @philtinline.bsky.social, @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social, & @jleadermaynard.bsky.social & organized by @elisewoodard.bsky.social & @michaelhannon.bsky.social

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 21

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/...

The Politics of Fear

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 21

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 20

From 2017’s ‘alternative facts’ to 2025’s ‘hard’ (&) ‘right’ facts

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢"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

The Politics of Fear

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Irena Arslanova @neuroirena.bsky.social · Jan 14

My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳

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#CogSci
#Neuroskyence
#SciComm

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 · Jan 10

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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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Jan 11

“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 · Dec 18

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