Professor Michael Banissy
BSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
Michael is an expert in social neuroscience, studying how we perceive and interact with each other. His areas of study include: emotion perception, empathy, social connection, touch, and wellbeing.
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8103 Digitally-mediated Affection: Evaluating Wellbeing Benefits And Individual Differences In Touch And Technological Substitutes
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/09/2025 to 30/06/2026
8544 Digitally-mediated affection: Evaluating Wellbeing Benefits And Individual Differences In Touch And Technological Substitutes - British Academy MCFSS25\250014
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychology and NeuroscienceDates
01/09/2025 to 31/07/2026
Digitally-mediated affection: Evaluating Wellbeing Benefits And Individual Differences In Touch And Technological Substitutes
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/09/2025 to 30/04/2026
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/10/2022 to 31/01/2024
Understanding individual variation in empathy enhancement
Principal Investigator
Dates
31/03/2022 to 30/09/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
08/09/2026Adult attachment, loneliness, and self-reported sleep outcomes: A secondary analysis of the Touch Test Study
PLOS ONE
Adult attachment, sleep hygiene and sleep quality: a cross-sectional mediation analysis
Psychology, Health & Medicine
Touch in psychotherapy: Experiences, desires and attitudes in a large population survey
Psychotherapy Research
Failure to account for psychiatric symptoms: Implications for the replicability and generalizability of psychological science?
Psychological Medicine
Atypical emotion sharing in individuals with mirror sensory synaesthesia
Cognitive Neuropsychology
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