Bio
Manos Tsakiris is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London where he leads the Lab of Action & Body and the INtheSELF ERC-funded project. He is also leading the BIAS (Body & Image in Arts & Science) project, funded by the NOMIS Foundation, at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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Research
What is the link between the body and the self? How do we become aware of ourselves and of others? How do we relate to and respond to the images that power human culture? These are some of the key questions that we research.
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People
Academics are fortunate enough to spend their whole career surrounded by young minds. A privilege that few other professions can give you. These are the people who make our research possible, successful and most enjoyable. The people to whom I am grateful for their creativity, skills and openness.
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Publications
Since 2003, our research has resulted in numerous publications in peer-reviewed international journals. In addition to the research articles we publish, we think it is important to take the time to consolidate our findings in original theoretical and review papers.Several of our papers are among the most-cited articles in our field of research (source: Thomson Reuters Citation Thresholds).
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News
We are trying to stay on top of things, be aware of the most important news in our field and whenever possible to contribute to what is timely and important.
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Media
Our research has attracted interest from media around the world, and has appeared in major international news organizations, such Reuters, BBC, The Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Le Figaro, Wall Street Journal, El Mundo, Huffington Post, and Scientific American.
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Events
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Mariana Von Mohr
I completed an MSc in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology – a two-year programme with the first year based at UCL and the second year at Yale University. At Yale, my research focused on the neurobiology of parenting and addiction, supervised by Dr. Helena Rutherford. Following this MSc, I completed a PhD at UCL, funded by CONACyT, and supervised by Dr. Katerina Fotopoulou. During my PhD, I investigated the social modulation of affective touch and pain. I have recently joined the Lab of Action and Body with Prof. Manos Tsakiris, as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Research Interests
I am primarily interested on the social modulation of interoceptive modalities as well as in how interoception may shape how we relate to others. To investigate this, I have employed behavioural, psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques.
Mariana.vonMohrBallina@rhul.ac.uk
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Fotopoulou, A., Von Mohr, M., & Krahé, C. (2021, June 15). Affective Regulation Through Touch: Homeostatic and Allostatic Mechanisms. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ksj3x
von Mohr, M., Kirsch, L. P., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing, tolerating isolation and craving interpersonal touch. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vkzft
Wang, K. J., Zheng, C. Y., Shidujaman, M., Wairagkar, M., & von Mohr, M. (2020, October). Jean Joseph v2. 0 (REmotion): Make Remote Emotion Touchable, Seeable and Thinkable by Direct Brain-to-Brain Telepathy Neurohaptic Interface Empowered by Generative Adversarial Network. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 3488-3493). IEEE.
Wang, K. J., Zheng, C. Y., Wairagkar, M., & von Mohr, M. (2020, September). Jean Joseph ZERO: Let Memories Come to Life with Music. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Taiwan (ICCE-Taiwan) (pp. 1-2). IEEE.
von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Villani, V., & Tsakiris (2019). Taking the pulse of social cognition: cardiac afferent activity and interoceptive accuracy modulate emotional egocentricity bias. PsyArXiv. 10.31219/osf.io
von Mohr, M.*, Kirsch, L.P.*, & Fotopoulou, A (2019). Affective Touch Dimensions: From Sensitivity to Metacognition. Doi.org/10.1101/669259.
von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Ambroziak, K., & Tsakiris, M. (2019). Do you hear what I see? An audio-visual paradigm to assess emotional egocentricity bias. Cognition & Emotion, 34(4), 756-770.
von Mohr, M., Krahé, C., Beck, B., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The social buffering of pain by affective touch: a laser-evoked potential study in romantic couples. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 10.
Krahé, C.*, von Mohr, M.*, Gentsch, A., Guy, L., Vari, C., Nolte, T., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Sensitivity to CT-optimal, Affective Touch Depends on Adult Attachment Style. Scientific reports, 8(1), 14544.
von Mohr, M., Crowley, M. J., Walthall, J., Mayes, L. C., Pelphrey, K. A., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2018). EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(1), 155-166
von Mohr, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (in press). The cutaneous borders of interoception: active and social inference on pain and pleasure on the skin. In M. Tsakiris & H. De Preester (Eds.), The interoceptive mind: from homeostasis to awareness.
von Mohr, M., Kirsch, P. L., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017). The Soothing Function of Touch: Affective Touch Reduces Feelings of Social Exclusion. Scientific Reports. 7: 13516 (link)
von Mohr, M., Mayes, L.C., MD & Rutherford, H.J.V., (2017). The Transition to Motherhood: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Perspectives. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 70:1, 154-173
Wilbanks, H. E*., von Mohr, M.*, Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2016). Tobacco Smoking and the Resting Maternal Brain: A Preliminary Study of Frontal EEG. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 89(2), 115–122.
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All rights reserved. Copyright © 2017 Manos Tsakiris
Manos Tsakiris
Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1784 276266
fax: +44 (0) 1784 434347
e-mail: manos.tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk
Manos Tsakiris
Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1784 276266
fax: +44 (0) 1784 434347
e-mail: manos.tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk
All rights reserved. Copyright © 2017 Manos Tsakiris