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Royal Holloway University of London

We’re a pioneering university, steeped in history and culture, yet constantly evolving and adapting to the demands of modern higher education.

Our university was founded by two social reformers who pioneered the ideal of education and knowledge for all who could benefit. Their vision lives on today. As one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities, we are home to some of the world’s foremost authorities in the sciences, arts, business, economics and law. As teachers and researchers they change lives, expand minds and help current and future leaders understand power and responsibility.  We are strengthened by diversity, and welcome students and academics who travel from all over the world to study and work here, ensuring an international and multi-cultural perspective within a close-knit and historic campus.

Ryan McKay
Professor
Royal Holloway University of London
Manos Tsakiris
Professor of Psychology
Royal Holloway University of London, The Warburg Institute
September 30, 2023
Rethinking the Role of Cognitive Biases in Delusion-Like Beliefs
Examining the relationships between delusion-like beliefs in the general population and cognitive biases associated with these tasks, NOMIS researcher Ryan McKay and colleagues suggest that some seemingly well-established relationships between […]
July 19, 2023
Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns use fundamentally different moral rhetoric, study finds
New research by NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues reveals how candidates in US presidential primary elections use distinct moral rhetoric on social media to appeal to voters. Their findings were […]
March 27, 2023
First of its kind study reveals how facial transplant recipient recognizes new appearance as their own
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and fellow researchers from the UK and USA conducted the first ever investigation into how a facial transplant recipient started to accept their new appearance as […]
March 8, 2023
Delusions as epistemic hypervigilance
Drawing on the literature on epistemic vigilance, NOMIS researcher Ryan McKay and Hugo Mercier have published a paper illuminating a conundrum related to delusions: Deluded individuals seem to display both […]
December 7, 2022
People’s misperception of "fake faces" for real ones could erode social trust
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues have published their findings in iScience showing that people are more likely to perceive artificially generated faces as real than real ones. The findings […]
September 26, 2022
NOMIS releases first NOMIS Insight film featuring Manos Tsakiris, BIAS project
Marking the completion of the Body and Image in Arts and Sciences (BIAS) project, the NOMIS Foundation is delighted to release its first NOMIS Insight film featuring inaugural NOMIS Awardee […]
July 11, 2022
Non-political anger shifts political preferences towards stronger leaders
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues published their findings in Nature Science Reports showing that anger that is not generated in a political context can shift political preferences in specific […]
April 11, 2022
Rhesus monkeys can perceive their own heartbeat
A study by NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues has shown that rhesus macaques can perceive their own heartbeat. The work could provide an important model for future psychiatric research, […]
March 16, 2022
Ukraine: how social media images from the ground could be affecting our response to the war
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris has published an article in The Conversation describing the way social media has influenced the world’s response to the war in Ukraine and the resulting refugee […]
December 7, 2021
Psychologists reveal how we truly see ourselves by generating "mental selfies"
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues show that our “mental selfies” can be affected by our beliefs about our personalities and our self-esteem. Their findings were published in Psychological Science. […]
August 16, 2021
The behavioural immune system protects us, but at what cost?
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris published an article in the digital magazine Psyche examining the sociobiological relationship between touch and disgust, and whether the lack of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic […]
May 17, 2021
When the lens is too wide: The political consequences of the visual dehumanization of refugees
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris and colleagues have demonstrated how images of refugees in the media dehumanize them and lead to political consequences. The research was published in Nature Humanities & […]
April 12, 2021
Serendipity interrupted: A life without social accidents
In an opinion piece published in Kathimerini on Apr. 8, NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a loss of serendipity in our social lives. […]
March 29, 2021
Manos Tsakiris co-editor of "The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms"
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London) and colleague Leor Zmigrod (University of Cambridge) have co-edited the […]
November 26, 2020
Manos Tsakiris elected president of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris has been elected president of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) for 2021–2023. The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience aims to […]
September 18, 2020
Manos Tsakiris: Politics is visceral
NOMIS Awardee Manos Tsakiris has published an essay in Aeon addressing visceral politics. In an age thick with anger and fear, we might dream of a purely rational politics but […]
December 6, 2022
The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?
Abstract: Why do swear words sound the way they do? Swear words are often thought to have sounds that render them especially fit for purpose, facilitating the expression of emotion and […]
July 30, 2022
COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccination hesitancy: Links to personality and general intelligence in a large, UK cohort
Abstract: Vaccines are a powerful and relatively safe tool to protect against a range of serious diseases. Nonetheless, a sizeable minority of people express ‘vaccination hesitancy’. Accordingly, understanding the bases of […]
January 1, 2021
Collectively Jumping to Conclusions: Social Information Amplifies the Tendency to Gather Insufficient Data
Abstract: False beliefs can spread within societies even when they are costly and when individuals share access to the same objective reality. Research on the cultural evolution of misbeliefs has demonstrated […]
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