2025
Kirsch L.P.*, Von Mohr, M.*, Koukoutsakis, T., & Fotopoulou, A. (2025). Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation. European Journal of Social Psychology. Download paper
Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2024). Feeling the body politic: Interoception as a mechanism of political resilience. PsyArXiv. See preprint
Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2025). The embodied roots of disgust: exploring the link between disgust sensitivity, interoception and political ideology. PsyArXiv. See preprint
2024
Von Mohr, M., Hackenburg, K., Tanzer, M., Fotopoulou, A., Campbell, C., & Tsakiris, M. (2024). A leader I can(not) trust: Dogmatism mediates the relationship between epistemic trust and political leader choice. Politics and Life Sciences, 1-10. Dowload paper
Zheng, C. Y., Wang, K. J., Wairagkar, M., von Mohr, M., Lintunen, E., & Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Simulating the Psychological and Neural Effects of Affective Touch with Soft Robotics: An Experimental Study. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11, 1419262. Download paper
Kirsch L.P., Tanzer, M., Filippetti, M.L., Von Mohr, M., Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Mothers are more egocentric towards their own child’s bodily emotions. Nature - Communications Psychology.1(1), 42. Download paper
2023
von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Esposito, G., Bahrami, B., & Tsakiris, M. (2023). Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence. Cognition, 238, 105502. Download paper
Von Mohr, M., Silva, P., Vagnoni, E., Bracher, A., Bertoni, T., Serino, A., ... & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). My Social Comfort Zone: Attachment Anxiety Shapes Peripersonal and Interpersonal Space. iScience, 26(2). Download paper
Azevedo, R., Von Mohr, M., & Tsakiris, M. (2022). From the viscera to first impressions: Phase dependent cardio-visual signals bias the perceived trustworthiness of faces. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221131519 Download paper
2022
Ruisch, B., Von Mohr, M., Naber, M., Tsakiris, M., Fazio, R., & Scheepers, D. (2022). Sensitive Liberals and Unfeeling Conservatives? Interoceptive Sensitivity Predicts Political Liberalism. Politics and Life Sciences, 41(2) Download paper
Fuentes-Balderrama, J., Turnbull-Plaza, B., Ojeda-Garcia A., Parra-Cardona, J.R., Cruz del Castillo, C., Diaz-Loving R., Von Mohr, M. (2022). Insecure attachment to parents as a contributor to internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in mexican preadolescents. Trends in Psychology, 29(4) Download paper
2021
Von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Villani, V., & Tsakiris, M. (2021). Taking the pulse of social cognition: cardiac afferent activity and interoceptive accuracy modulate emotional egocentricity bias. Cortex, 145, 327-340. Download paper
Fotopoulou, A., Von Mohr, M., & Krahé, C. (2021). Affective Regulation Through Touch: Homeostatic and Allostatic Mechanisms. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 43, 80-87 Download paper
von Mohr, M., Kirsch, L. P., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing, tolerating isolation and craving interpersonal touch. Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), 210287 Download paper
Zheng, C. Y., Wang, K.-J., Wairagkar, M., Von Mohr, M., Lintunen, E., & Fotopoulou, K. (2021). Comparing soft robotic affective touch to human and brush affective touch. 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 352–352. Download paper
2020
Wang, K. J., Zheng, C. Y., Shidujaman, M., Wairagkar, M., & von Mohr, M. (2020, October). Jean Joseph v2. 0 (REmotion): Make Remote Emotion Touchable, Seeable and Thinkable by Direct Brain-to-Brain Telepathy Neurohaptic Interface Empowered by Generative Adversarial Network. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 3488-3493). IEEE. Download paper
Wang, K. J., Zheng, C. Y., Wairagkar, M., & von Mohr, M. (2020, September). Jean Joseph ZERO: Let Memories Come to Life with Music. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Taiwan (ICCE-Taiwan) (pp. 1-2). IEEE. Download paper
2019
von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Ambroziak, K., & Tsakiris, M. (2019). Do you hear what I see? An audio-visual paradigm to assess emotional egocentricity bias. Cognition & Emotion Download paper
von Mohr, M.*, Kirsch, L.P.*, & Fotopoulou, A (2019). Affective Touch Dimensions: From Sensitivity to Metacognition. Doi.org/10.1101/669259. Download preprint
von Mohr, M., Finotti, G., Villani, V., & Tsakiris (2019). Taking the pulse of social cognition: cardiac afferent activity and interoceptive accuracy modulate emotional egocentricity bias. 10.31219/osf.io Download preprint
2018
von Mohr, M., Krahé, C., Beck, B., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The social buffering of pain by affective touch: A laser-evoked potentials study in romantic couples. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience. 13)11, 1121-1130 Download paper
Krahé, C.*, von Mohr, M.*, Gentsch, A., Guy, L., Vari, C., Nolte, T., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). Sensitivity to affective touch depends on adult attachment style. Scientific Reports. 8:14544 Download paper
von Mohr, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018). The cutaneous borders of interoception: active and social inference on pain and pleasure on the skin. In M. Tsakiris & H. De Preester (Eds.), The interoceptive mind: from homeostasis to awareness Download chapter
von Mohr, M., Crowley, M. J., Walthall, J., Mayes, L. C., Pelphrey, K. A., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2018). EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 18(1), 155-156 Download paper
2017
von Mohr, M., Kirsch, P. L., & Fotopoulou, A. (2017). The Soothing Function of Touch: Affective Touch Reduces Feelings of Social Exclusion. Scientific Reports. 7: 13516 Download paper
von Mohr, M., Mayes, L.C., MD & Rutherford, H.J.V., (2017). The Transition to Motherhood: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Perspectives. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 70:1, 154-173 Download paper
2016
Wilbanks, H. E.*, von Mohr, M.*, Potenza, M. N., Mayes, L. C., & Rutherford, H. J. V. (2016). Tobacco Smoking and the Resting Maternal Brain: A Preliminary Study of Frontal EEG. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 89(2), 115–122 Download paper