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
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., 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, 2, e555124.
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Lawall, K., Michalaki, K. and Tsakiris, M. (2025). Angry losers? The (null) effects of feeling electoral loss on anti-democratic attitudes. European Journal of Political Research. ISSN 1475-6765, (In Press).
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. Commun Psychol. 3(1):148.
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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. J Comput Soc Sc 7, 1223–1274.
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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. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 379(1897):20230040.
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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. Front Psychol.;15:1284422.
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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, 34(1), 120–131.
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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 : The Journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, 41(2), 256–275.
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Ambroziak, K. B., Safra, L., & Tsakiris, M. (2022). Non-political anger shifts political preferences towards stronger leaders. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11766.
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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 ;25(12):105441.
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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, 376(1822), 20200142.
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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, 8(1), 115. 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, (Vol. 376, Issue 1822). Royal Society Publishing.
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Pre-Prints
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Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2024, October 21). Feeling the Body Politic: Interoception as a Mechanism of Political Resilience.
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Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2026, January 6). Political Emotions Shape Preferences for Leaders’ Facial Traits.
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Vik, A., Galvez-Pol, A., Park, S., & Tsakiris, M. (2025, December 1). Politics Embodied: How Politics Shapes and Is Shaped by the Bodily Experience of Emotion.
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Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2025, November 13). The embodied roots of ideology: Interoceptive Sensibility Moderates the Link Between Disgust Sensitivity and Political Ideology.
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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. Nat Clim Chang; 15(7):725-735.
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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. Sci Data 12, 114.
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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, 11(1):1066.
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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; 10(6):eadj5778.
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Azevedo, F., Pavlović, Tsakiris, M.., […] Sampaio, W. M. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data, 10(1), 272.
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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 , 13, 517.
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