Manos Tsakiris

Manos Tsakiris is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Tsakiris' research spans interoception, body ownership, self-recognition, and the embodied bases of social cognition, with particular emphasis on how bodily signals and sensory integration shape perception, emotion, and behavior. Beyond laboratory investigations of these core topics, Tsakiris has extended this work into applied domains including political psychology, examining how embodied processes relate to political attitudes, future anxiety, and social perception, particularly regarding vulnerable populations such as refugees. Tsakiris' broader methodological toolkit encompasses behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and intervention studies that together illuminate the visceral dimensions of human experience from infancy through adulthood.