20 years ago, with P Haggard we revisited the rubber hand illusion in a paper at JEP:HPP. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the journal & we were honoured to be invited to re-revisit our original paper for this anniversary issue psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Applications for the MSc Applied Neuroscience @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are open: from cutting-edge brain science into real-world impact with hands-on training on fMRI, TMS, VR, EEG, and eye-tracking data. Apply by 20 Aug (International)/29 Aug (UK)
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Focal brain damage effects on political behaviour, not on ideology. Political involvement was more intense after lesions to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex & posterior precuneus, less intense after lesions to the amygdala and anterior temporal lobe
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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com from @financialtimes.com shows that Trump’s America and his supporters are a stark outlier from western Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere. In many cases, the Maga mindset is much closer to that of Vladimir Putin’s Russia or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey.

From 2017’s ‘alternative facts’ to 2025’s ‘hard’ (&) ‘right’ facts

“A world of rising singledom is not necessarily any better or worse than one filled with couples and families, but it is fundamentally different to what has come before, with major social, economic and political implications. […] Is this what people really want? ” on.ft.com/4fWosfH

“Poor grammar is now a welcome sign of a brain and beating heart.”

'The Effect of Seeing Paintings or Photojournalistic Images Depicting Refugees on Their Infrahumanisation' , our most recent paper together with Ionela Bara for the ARTIS Project , published in Art & Perception brill.com/view/journal...

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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