🚨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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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...

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

Congratulations Lala! Looking forward to reading it

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

My TEDx talk (9min) has found its home on TED's official website: go.ted.com/irenaarslanova 🧠🫀⏳ 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 #CogSci #Neuroskyence #SciComm

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

“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/9en5Po4

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...

@jamoffatt.bsky.social, we can’t wait to have you start! @mtsakiris.bsky.social & rhul crew, you are all welcome to visit ☺️

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 🧡

Just back from a fascinating day discussing #humanfactors in accident investigations with the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Academy of Forensic Sciences - interesting to see key cognitive factors like distraction and vigilance decrements coming up so frequently @roysocmed.bsky.social

Funded 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...

Now 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...

Our department has just joined! Welcome @rhulpsychology.bsky.social !

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

“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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@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...

Apply to the EASP Summer School at Kent University--I'll be give a guest lecture! The summer school features 6 classes: -Conspiracies & Misinformation -Moral Psychology & AI -Social Identity & Extremism -Human-Animal Relations -Political Cognition -Close Relationships www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

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/...

Wise piece about the sorry state of universities “There is an erosion of trust between academics and university leadership, despite efforts to adopt terms such as choice, collegiality, ownership, consultation and empowerment.” www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3500...

Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/