Stephan Lewandowsky

Affiliation: School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol (UK)

Research on psychological mechanisms underlying misinformation belief, continued influence effects, and the challenges of correcting false beliefs in contentious domains (climate change, vaccines, elections).

Papers

• Lewandowsky, Ecker, Seifert, Schwarz & Cook (2012) — Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing — foundational review of cognitive mechanisms underlying continued influence of misinformation and evidence-based debiasing strategies
• Cook, Lewandowsky & Ecker (2017) — Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation — empirical study demonstrating inoculation effectiveness against false-balance media and fake-expert arguments in climate change misinformation
• Ecker et al. (2022) — The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction — comprehensive review of cognitive, social, and affective mechanisms in false belief formation and correction