
The behavioural immune system protects us, but at what cost?
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unplanned social experiment on skin hunger and touch aversion. How will our politics suffer?
by Manos Tsakiris
Manos Tsakiris is professor of psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, and director of the interdisciplinary Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the University of London. His research investigates the neural, affective and cognitive mechanisms of self-awareness and social cognition. He is the co-editor with Helena De Preester of The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness (2018).