Publications

Below you will find some of our recent publications. Happy readings and do get in touch with any thoughts, questions or ideas for collaborations.

Core Publications

Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2026). Feeling the Body Politic: Interoception as a Mechanism of Political Resilience. Political Psychology

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Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2026). Political Emotions Shape Preferences for Leaders; Facial Traits: Anger Favors Dominance, Fear Favors Trustworthiness. Cognition and Emotion.

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Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2026). The Embodied Roots of Ideology: Interoceptive Sensibility Moderates the Link Between Disgust Sensitivity and Political Orientation. Politics and the Life Sciences.

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Vik, A., Galvez-Pol, A., Park, S., Tsakiris, M. (2026). Politics Embodied: How Politics Shapes and is Shaped by the Bodily Experience of Emotions. PNAS.

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Lawall, K., Versteegen, P., & Tsakiris, M. (2026). How does Affective Polarization Feel? A Comparative Description. European Journal of Political Research.

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Lawall, K., Michalaki, K. and Tsakiris, M. (2026). Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes. European Journal of Political Research.

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Borghi, O., Niraki, M., Seremeta, E., Smets, K., & Tsakiris, M. (2025). Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece. advances.in/psychology.

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Hackenburg, K., Ibrahim, L., Tappin, B.M. et al. (2025). Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized U.S. political issues. AI & Soc.

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Borghi O, Tappin BM, Smets K, Tsakiris M. (2025). Mind over bias: How is cognitive control related to politically motivated reasoning? Cognition.

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Cutler J, Contreras-Huerta LS, [...], Tsakiris M, Apps MAJ, Lockwood PL. (2025) Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. Communications Psychology.

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von Mohr M, Hackenburg K, Tanzer M, Fotopoulou A, Campbell C, Tsakiris M. (2024). A leader I can(not) trust: understanding the path from epistemic trust to political leader choices via dogmatism. Politics & Life Sciences.

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Rocca, R., Lawall, K., Tsakiris, M. (2024). Communicating Europe: a computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication on Twitter. Journal of Computational Social Science

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Pretus C, Javeed AM, Hughes D, Hackenburg K, Tsakiris M, Vilarroya O, Van Bavel JJ. (2024). The Misleading count: an identity-based intervention to counter partisan misinformation sharing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Leeuwis N, van Bommel T, Tsakiris M, Alimardani M. (2024). Uncovering the potential of evaluative conditioning in shaping attitudes toward sustainable product packaging. Frontiers in Psychology.

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Hackenburg K, Brady WJ, Tsakiris, M. (2023) Mapping moral language on US presidential primary campaigns reveals rhetorical networks of political division and unity. PNAS Nexus.

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Azevedo, R. T., von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2023). From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces. Psychological Science.

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Ruisch, B. C., Mohr, M. V., Naber, M., Tsakiris, M., Fazio, R. H., & Scheepers, D. T. (2023). Sensitive liberals and unfeeling conservatives? Interoceptive sensitivity predicts political liberalism. Politics and the Life Sciences.

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Ambroziak, K. B., Safra, L., & Tsakiris, M. (2022). Non-political anger shifts political preferences towards stronger leaders. Scientific Reports.

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Tucciarelli R, Vehar N, Chandaria S, Tsakiris M. (2022). On the realness of people who do not exist: The social processing of artificial faces. iScience.

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Tsakiris M.., Vehar, N., & Tucciarelli, R. (2021). Visceral politics: a theoretical and empirical proof of concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Azevedo, R. T., De Beukelaer, S., Jones, I. L., Safra, L., & Tsakiris M. (2021). When the lens is too wide: The political consequences of the visual dehumanization of refugees. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Available here.

Zmigrod, L., & Tsakiris M. (2021). Computational and neurocognitive approaches to the political brain: Key insights and future avenues for political neuroscience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science.

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Pre-Prints

Borghi, O., Tsakiris, M., & Von Mohr, M., (2026, June 21). Is Democracy Worth the Effort? Seeing the Other Side as Willing Strengthens Pro-Democratic Motivation.

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Mehravar, J., Von Mohr, M., Borghi, O., Taskiris, M. (2026, July 23). Paths to Populism and Liberal Democracy: Intercorrellations of Affect, Cognition, and Wellbeing

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Many Lab Collaborations

Cologna V, Meiler S, Kropf CM, [...] Oreskes N, Schäfer MS, Linden SV; TISP Consortium. (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change.

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Mede, N.G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., [...] Tsakiris M, et al. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset. Nature Scientific Data.

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Cologna, V., Mede, N.G., Berger, S., […], Tsakiris M, et al. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behaviour.

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Doell KC, Todorova B, Vlasceanu M, [...] Tsakiris M[…], Van Bavel JJ. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Nature Scientific Data.

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Vlasceanu M, Doell KC, […], Tsakiris M, […] Van Bavel JJ. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances.

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Azevedo, F., Pavlović, Tsakiris, M.., […] Sampaio, W. M. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Nature Scientific Data.

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Van Bavel JJ, Cichocka A, […], Tsakiris M.(, […], Boggio PS. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations, Nature Communications.

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