Manos Tsakiris

Manos Tsakiris is a professor of psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and also holds an affiliation with the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Tsakiris works on the psychological and neurocognitive bases of bodily self-awareness, interoception, and the sense of body ownership, with related work examining how physiological signals such as cardiac activity shape social perception, racial stereotyping, and first impressions of others. More recent research extends these interests into political psychology, investigating how embodied emotional experience relates to political attitudes, future anxiety among young people, and the visual representation of refugees. Tsakiris has also published on clinical and developmental dimensions of interoception, including studies of interoceptive sensitivity in infancy and atypical self-focus in anorexia nervosa.