Manos Tsakiris

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.

The rise of ‘decline porn’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

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

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

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...

Images show effortful pro-environmental behaviours of recycling and cycling and alternatives of an overflowing bin or driving

🌎 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 !

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.

'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...

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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 👇

Cardiac afferent activity modulates the expression of racial stereotypes - Nature Communications Black individuals are racially stereotyped as threatening but how bodily signals may affect these misperceptions is not known. Here Azevedo and colleagues show that these race-driven responses are aff...

www.nature.com/articles/nco...

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.

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...

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 ...

These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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.

🔍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...

👏🙌🎉 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 !

🚨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...

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

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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Post-doctoral Fellow (Political Psychology/Political Science/ Social-Affective Neuroscience) at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings :London Senate House

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!

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

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...

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.

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 🚨

@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