Event overview
Prof Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway, will give the Psychology Depart. Seminar on Being, with a deep body in mind: implications for self-awareness, social cognition & politics
Abstract : Interoception describes the processing and awareness of body-to-brain axis of signals that are essential for ensuring the organism’s homeostatic needs. Beyond homeostasis, a renewed interest in interoception across psychological sciences and neurosciences has highlighted its importance for self-awareness and social cognition. The talk will present recent studies that look at how signals from the viscera influence a range of cognitive and affective processes that are important for the awareness of ourselves, our relations to others and possibly for our political emotions and behaviour.
Manos Tsakiris is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he leads the Lab of Action & Body (LAB). His research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on how bodily and feeling states influence our self-awareness and socio-political behaviour. He is the recipient of the Young Mind and Brain Prize in 2014, of the 22nd Experimental Psychology Society Prize in 2015, and the NOMIS Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award in 2016. Since 2021, he has been the director of the interdisciplinary Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the University of London.
Website:
https://www.manostsakiris.org/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Feb 2024 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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