Mariana von Mohr
marianavonmohr.bsky.social
Mariana von Mohr
@marianavonmohr.bsky.social
Experimental psychologist | Social neuroscientist | Researching heart-brain interactions, interoception, touch & pain
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🎉 Excited to share our paper out in EJSP - showing that vicarious touch, i.e. observing human-pet tactile interactions, can reduce stress, in times of social touch deprivation such as the first COVID lockdown !
Co-led with @marianavonmohr.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @katerinafoto.bsky.social
Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation
Restricted interpersonal touch experiences, for instance due to COVID-19 social distancing measures, result in detrimental effects on anxiety, loneliness and psychological well-being. Yet, interventi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Mariana von Mohr
If the articles from my PhD were my children this article now published in @bjpols.bsky.social is my favorite. Written together with truly amazing supervisors and mentors, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Treib, and Lene Aarøe, I had the support I needed in bringing this baby into the world. Summary below 👇
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In previous work with Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social , we showed that interoception can act as a buffer against political stress. We now extend this research to the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections, capturing data before and after

Check out our preprint 👇

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July 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Sharing our work at #ISPP in beautiful Prague on affective prescription —and how this shapes the kind of political leader we’re drawn to based on their appearance.
Preprint coming soon!
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Great talk by @olafborghi.com on cognitive control and politically motivated reasoning, even in the face of unexpected interference 👇😂 #ISPP2025
July 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Apply and join us at the Centre! It’s a brilliant place to work with great people and exciting projects
Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline 11th July. Please share!
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July 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Politics affect our health (think US elections). With M Von Mohr, we show that better body-awareness make us more resilient to the negative health impact of politics, without a cost to our political engagement. & We replicate this before & after the 2024 Presidential election
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November 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM