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Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N., Kendeou, P., Vraga, E. K., & Amazeen, M. A. (2022). The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Mazalan, N. S., Landers, G. K., Wallman, K. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). A combination of ice ingestion and head cooling enhances cognitive performance during endurance exercise in the heat. Journal of Sport Science & Medicine, 21, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.52082/jssm.2022.23
Swire-Thompson, B., Cook, J., Butler, L. H., Sanderson, J. A., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
Lewandowsky, S., Facer, K., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Losses, hopes, and expectations for sustainable futures after COVID. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 296. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00961-0
McIlhiney, P., Gignac, G. E., Weinborn, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Sensitivity to misinformation retractions in the continued influence paradigm: Evidence for stability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Calleja, N., Abad, N., Abdallah, A. H., Ahmed, N., Albarracín, D., Altieri, E., Anoko, J., Arcos, R., Azlan, A., Bayer, J., Bechmann, A., Bezbaruah, S., Briand, S. C., Brooks, I., Bucci, L. M., Burzo, S., Czerniak, C., De Domenico, M., Dunn, A. G., Ecker, U. K. H., ... Purnat, T. (2021). A public health research agenda for managing infodemics: Methods and results of the first WHO infodemiology conference. JMIR Infodemiology, 1, e30979. https://doi.org/10.2196/30979
Sanderson, J. A., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1931243
Ecker, U. K. H., & Antonio, L. M. (2021). Can you believe it? An investigation into the impact of retraction source credibility on the continued influence effect. Memory & Cognition, 49, 631-644. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01129-y
Ecker, U. K. H., Sze, B. K. N., & Andreotta, M. (2021). Corrections of political misinformation: No evidence for an effect of partisan worldview in a U.S. convenience sample. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200145. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0145
Hyland-Wood, B., Gardner, J., Leask, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Towards an effective government communications strategy in the era of COVID-19. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, 30. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00701-w
Mazalan, N. S., Landers, G. K., Wallman, K. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Head cooling prior to exercise in the heat does not improve cognitive performance. Journal of Sport Science & Medicine, 20, 69-76. https://www.jssm.org/jssm-20-69.xml%3EFulltext
MacFarlane, D., Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Refuting spurious COVID-19 treatment claims reduces demand and misinformation sharing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.005
Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L. H., & Hamby, A. (2020). You don’t have to tell a story! A Registered Report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00266-x
Rey-Mermet, A., Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Interference control in working memory: Evidence for discriminant validity between removal and inhibition tasks. PLOS ONE, 15, e0243053. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243053
Brydges, C. R., Gordon, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of the continued influence effect of misinformation—An exploratory study. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32, 771-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1849226
Lewandowsky, S., Jetter, M, & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Using the president's tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media. Nature Communications, 11, 5764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19644-6
Ecker, U. K. H., & Rodricks, A. E. (2020). Do false allegations persist? Retracted misinformation does not influence explicit impression formation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 587-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.08.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Chadwick. M. (2020). Can corrections spread misinformation to new audiences? Testing for the elusive familiarity backfire effect. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00241-6
Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L. H., Cook, J., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020). Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 70, 101464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Countering demand for unsupported health remedies: Do consumers respond to risks, lack of benefits, or both? Psychology & Health. [Supplement]
https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1774056
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Reducing demand for unsupported health remedies: A taxonomy for overcoming psychological barriers. Social Science & Medicine, 259, 112790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112790
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Sutherland, R., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Perceived evidence and use of autism intervention strategies in early intervention providers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1088-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04332-2
Swire-Thompson, B., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Berinsky, A. (2020). They might be a liar but they’re my liar: Source evaluation and the prevalence of misinformation. Political Psychology, 41, 21-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12586
Ecker, U. K. H., O’Reilly, Z., Reid, J. S., & Chang, E. P. (2020). The effectiveness of short-format refutational fact-checks. British Journal of Psychology, 111, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12383
Hamby, A. M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Brinberg, D. (2019). How stories in memory perpetuate the continued influence of false information. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30, 240-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1135
Gordon, A., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Polarity and attitude effects in the continued-influence paradigm. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.104028
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J. C. W., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections. NeuroImage, 193, 46-56. [Supplement]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.014
Ecker, U. K. H., & Ang, L. C. (2019). Political attitudes and the processing of misinformation corrections. Political Psychology, 40, 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12494
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2019). Not wallowing in misery—Retractions of negative misinformation are effective in dysphoric rumination. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1533808
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Jayawardana, K., & Mladenovic, A. (2019). Refutations of equivocal claims: No evidence for an ironic effect of counterargument number. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 98-107.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.07.005
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world autism treatment myth debunking. PLOS ONE, 14, e0210746. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210746
Aird, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., Berinsky, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180593. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180593
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: Overcoming the illusion of causality. Psychology & Health, 33, 1472-1489. [Supplement] https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1508685
Brydges, C. R., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, and the continued influence effect: A latent-variable analysis. Intelligence, 69, 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.03.009
Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity mediates the relationship between removal and fluid intelligence. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 18-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.002
Kirmsse, A., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Age-related changes in working memory: Age affects relational but not conjunctive feature binding. Psychology and Aging, 33, 512-526. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000249
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Letting the gorilla emerge from the mist: Getting past post-truth. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 418-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.11.002
Gordon, A., Brooks, J. C. W., Quadflieg, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Exploring the neural substrates of misinformation processing. Neuropsychologia, 106, 216-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.003
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.07.008
Allanson, F., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 912-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2017.1360307
Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175799
Swire, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). The role of familiarity in correcting inaccurate information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 1948-1961. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000422
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2017). Impaired memory updating associated with impaired recall of negative words in dysphoric rumination—Evidence for a removal deficit. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 93, 22-28.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.008
Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Processing political misinformation—comprehending the Trump phenomenon. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160802. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160802
Ecker, U. K. H., Hogan, J. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 185-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.01.014
Trembath, D., Paynter, J., Keen, D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2016). “Attention: Myth follows!” Facilitated communication, parent and professional attitudes towards evidence-based practice, and the power of misinformation. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 9, 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489539.2015.1103433
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cheung, C. S. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2015). He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 101-115.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.09.002
Ecker, U. K. H., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Memory without consolidation: Temporal distinctiveness explains retroactive interference. Cognitive Science, 39, 1570-1593. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12214
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Misinformation and how to correct it. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0222
Ecker, U. K. H., Tay, J.-X., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Effects of pre-study and post-study rest on memory: Support for temporal interference accounts of forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 772-778. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0737-8
Fenton, O. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2015). Memory updating in sub-clinical eating disorder: Differential effects with food and body-shape words. Eating Behaviors, 17, 103-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.01.008
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Chang, E. P., & Pillai, R. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 323-335. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000028
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2014.03.006
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Fenton, O., & Martin, K. (2014). Do people keep believing because they want to? Pre-existing attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 42, 292-304.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0358-x
Hasan, A., Wobrock, T., Falkai, P., Schneider-Axmann, T., Guse, B., Backens, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Heimes, J., Scherk, H., & Gruber, O. (2014). Hippocampal integrity and neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A multidimensional study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 15, 188-199. https://doi.org/10.3109/15622975.2011.620002
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 400-405). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Maybery, M. T., & Zimmer, H. D. (2013). Binding of intrinsic and extrinsic features in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 218-234. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028732
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Computational constraints in cognitive theories of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (400), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00400
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612451018
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and (unnecessary?) constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00042.x
Küper, K., Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 52-64.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0065-7
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011). Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0065-1
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2010.497927
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. T. W. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.8.1087
Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic Tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1066-1079.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.01.014
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for Matlab. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 571-585. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.2.571
Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., & Falkai, P. (2010). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology, 208, 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-009-1736-8
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 170-189. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017891
Ecker, U. K. H., Arend, A. M., Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant feature—An ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.04.005
Bermeitinger, C., Goelz, R., Johr, N., Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2008.10.001
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21135
Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (2009). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 10, 442-451.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15622970701849986
Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 252-261.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2008.06.001
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193618
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.047
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context—An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.01.005
Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.215
Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How “implicit” are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1027//1618-3169.49.2.120
Book chapters, books, and other publications
Sanderson, J. A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). The challenge of misinformation and ways to reduce its impact. In P. Kendeou, P. van Meter, A. List & D. Lombardi (Eds.), Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961-30
Paynter, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Trembath, D., Sulek, R., & Keen, D. (2019). Misinformation in autism spectrum disorder and education. In P. Kendeou, D. H. Robinson & M. T. McCrudden (Eds.), Misinformation and Fake News in Education (pp. 207-228). Charlotte, NC: IAP.
Swire, B. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Misinformation and its correction: Cognitive mechanisms and recommendations for mass communication. In B. G. Southwell, E. A. Thorson, & L. Sheble (Eds.), Misinformation and Mass Audiences (pp. 195-211). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Why rebuttals may not work: The psychology of misinformation. Media Asia.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2017.1384145
Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Correcting misinformation—A challenge for education and cognitive science. In D. N. Rapp & J. L. G. Braasch (Eds.), Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences (pp. 13-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2007). Objects in context. The neurocognitive representation, binding, and processing of object and context features in recognition memory—An electrophysiological approach. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM.
Ecker, U. K. H., Groh-Bordin, C., & Zimmer, H. D. (2004). Electrophysiological correlates of specific feature binding in remembering—Introducing a neurocognitive model of human memory. In A. Mecklinger, H. D. Zimmer, & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Bound in Memory—Insights from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies (pp.159-193). Aachen, Germany: Shaker.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). Implicit colour-congruency effects in object priming—A study on token construction in amnesics. Unpublished Honours thesis (“Diplomarbeit”), Saarland University, Germany.
Note: Article titles link to author accepted manuscripts (post-prints); dois link to published versions
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N., Kendeou, P., Vraga, E. K., & Amazeen, M. A. (2022). The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction. Nature Reviews Psychology.
Mazalan, N. S., Landers, G. K., Wallman, K. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). A combination of ice ingestion and head cooling enhances cognitive performance during endurance exercise in the heat. Journal of Sport Science & Medicine, 21, 23-32. https://doi.org/10.52082/jssm.2022.23
Swire-Thompson, B., Cook, J., Butler, L. H., Sanderson, J. A., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.
Lewandowsky, S., Facer, K., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Losses, hopes, and expectations for sustainable futures after COVID. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 296. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00961-0
McIlhiney, P., Gignac, G. E., Weinborn, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Sensitivity to misinformation retractions in the continued influence paradigm: Evidence for stability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Calleja, N., Abad, N., Abdallah, A. H., Ahmed, N., Albarracín, D., Altieri, E., Anoko, J., Arcos, R., Azlan, A., Bayer, J., Bechmann, A., Bezbaruah, S., Briand, S. C., Brooks, I., Bucci, L. M., Burzo, S., Czerniak, C., De Domenico, M., Dunn, A. G., Ecker, U. K. H., ... Purnat, T. (2021). A public health research agenda for managing infodemics: Methods and results of the first WHO infodemiology conference. JMIR Infodemiology, 1, e30979. https://doi.org/10.2196/30979
Sanderson, J. A., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2021.1931243
Ecker, U. K. H., & Antonio, L. M. (2021). Can you believe it? An investigation into the impact of retraction source credibility on the continued influence effect. Memory & Cognition, 49, 631-644. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01129-y
Ecker, U. K. H., Sze, B. K. N., & Andreotta, M. (2021). Corrections of political misinformation: No evidence for an effect of partisan worldview in a U.S. convenience sample. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200145. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0145
Hyland-Wood, B., Gardner, J., Leask, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Towards an effective government communications strategy in the era of COVID-19. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, 30. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00701-w
Mazalan, N. S., Landers, G. K., Wallman, K. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Head cooling prior to exercise in the heat does not improve cognitive performance. Journal of Sport Science & Medicine, 20, 69-76. https://www.jssm.org/jssm-20-69.xml%3EFulltext
MacFarlane, D., Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Refuting spurious COVID-19 treatment claims reduces demand and misinformation sharing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.005
Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L. H., & Hamby, A. (2020). You don’t have to tell a story! A Registered Report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00266-x
Rey-Mermet, A., Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Interference control in working memory: Evidence for discriminant validity between removal and inhibition tasks. PLOS ONE, 15, e0243053. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243053
Brydges, C. R., Gordon, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of the continued influence effect of misinformation—An exploratory study. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32, 771-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1849226
Lewandowsky, S., Jetter, M, & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Using the president's tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media. Nature Communications, 11, 5764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19644-6
Ecker, U. K. H., & Rodricks, A. E. (2020). Do false allegations persist? Retracted misinformation does not influence explicit impression formation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 587-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.08.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Chadwick. M. (2020). Can corrections spread misinformation to new audiences? Testing for the elusive familiarity backfire effect. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00241-6
Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L. H., Cook, J., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020). Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 70, 101464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101464
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Countering demand for unsupported health remedies: Do consumers respond to risks, lack of benefits, or both? Psychology & Health. [Supplement]
https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1774056
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Reducing demand for unsupported health remedies: A taxonomy for overcoming psychological barriers. Social Science & Medicine, 259, 112790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112790
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Sutherland, R., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Perceived evidence and use of autism intervention strategies in early intervention providers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 1088-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04332-2
Swire-Thompson, B., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Berinsky, A. (2020). They might be a liar but they’re my liar: Source evaluation and the prevalence of misinformation. Political Psychology, 41, 21-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12586
Ecker, U. K. H., O’Reilly, Z., Reid, J. S., & Chang, E. P. (2020). The effectiveness of short-format refutational fact-checks. British Journal of Psychology, 111, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12383
Hamby, A. M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Brinberg, D. (2019). How stories in memory perpetuate the continued influence of false information. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30, 240-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1135
Gordon, A., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Polarity and attitude effects in the continued-influence paradigm. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.104028
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J. C. W., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections. NeuroImage, 193, 46-56. [Supplement]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.014
Ecker, U. K. H., & Ang, L. C. (2019). Political attitudes and the processing of misinformation corrections. Political Psychology, 40, 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12494
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2019). Not wallowing in misery—Retractions of negative misinformation are effective in dysphoric rumination. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1533808
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Jayawardana, K., & Mladenovic, A. (2019). Refutations of equivocal claims: No evidence for an ironic effect of counterargument number. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 98-107.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.07.005
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Trembath, D., Tucker, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2019). Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation—Real-world autism treatment myth debunking. PLOS ONE, 14, e0210746. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210746
Aird, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., Berinsky, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180593. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180593
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: Overcoming the illusion of causality. Psychology & Health, 33, 1472-1489. [Supplement] https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1508685
Brydges, C. R., Gignac, G. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, and the continued influence effect: A latent-variable analysis. Intelligence, 69, 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.03.009
Singh, K. A., Gignac, G. E., Brydges, C. R., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Working memory capacity mediates the relationship between removal and fluid intelligence. Journal of Memory and Language, 101, 18-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.03.002
Kirmsse, A., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Age-related changes in working memory: Age affects relational but not conjunctive feature binding. Psychology and Aging, 33, 512-526. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000249
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Letting the gorilla emerge from the mist: Getting past post-truth. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 418-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.11.002
Gordon, A., Brooks, J. C. W., Quadflieg, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Exploring the neural substrates of misinformation processing. Neuropsychologia, 106, 216-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.003
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.07.008
Allanson, F., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). No evidence for a role of reconsolidation in updating of paired associates. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 912-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2017.1360307
Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175799
Swire, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). The role of familiarity in correcting inaccurate information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 1948-1961. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000422
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H., & Page, A. C. (2017). Impaired memory updating associated with impaired recall of negative words in dysphoric rumination—Evidence for a removal deficit. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 93, 22-28.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.008
Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Processing political misinformation—comprehending the Trump phenomenon. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160802. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160802
Ecker, U. K. H., Hogan, J. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Reminders and repetition of misinformation: Helping or hindering its retraction? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 185-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.01.014
Trembath, D., Paynter, J., Keen, D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2016). “Attention: Myth follows!” Facilitated communication, parent and professional attitudes towards evidence-based practice, and the power of misinformation. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 9, 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489539.2015.1103433
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cheung, C. S. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2015). He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 101-115.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.09.002
Ecker, U. K. H., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Memory without consolidation: Temporal distinctiveness explains retroactive interference. Cognitive Science, 39, 1570-1593. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12214
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Misinformation and how to correct it. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0222
Ecker, U. K. H., Tay, J.-X., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Effects of pre-study and post-study rest on memory: Support for temporal interference accounts of forgetting. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 772-778. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0737-8
Fenton, O. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2015). Memory updating in sub-clinical eating disorder: Differential effects with food and body-shape words. Eating Behaviors, 17, 103-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.01.008
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Chang, E. P., & Pillai, R. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 323-335. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000028
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2014.03.006
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Fenton, O., & Martin, K. (2014). Do people keep believing because they want to? Pre-existing attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 42, 292-304.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0358-x
Hasan, A., Wobrock, T., Falkai, P., Schneider-Axmann, T., Guse, B., Backens, M., Ecker, U. K. H., Heimes, J., Scherk, H., & Gruber, O. (2014). Hippocampal integrity and neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A multidimensional study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 15, 188-199. https://doi.org/10.3109/15622975.2011.620002
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 400-405). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Maybery, M. T., & Zimmer, H. D. (2013). Binding of intrinsic and extrinsic features in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 218-234. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028732
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Computational constraints in cognitive theories of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (400), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00400
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100612451018
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and (unnecessary?) constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00042.x
Küper, K., Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2012). Electrophysiological correlates of exemplar-specific processes in implicit and explicit memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 52-64.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0065-7
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011). Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0065-1
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2010.497927
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. T. W. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.8.1087
Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). Remembering perceptual features unequally bound in Object and Episodic Tokens: Neural mechanisms and their electrophysiological correlates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 34, 1066-1079.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.01.014
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L. X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for Matlab. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 571-585. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.2.571
Wobrock, T., Hasan, A., Malchow, B., Wolff-Menzler, C., Guse, B., Lang, N., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., & Falkai, P. (2010). Increased cortical inhibition deficits in first-episode schizophrenia with comorbid cannabis abuse. Psychopharmacology, 208, 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-009-1736-8
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 170-189. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017891
Ecker, U. K. H., Arend, A. M., Bergström, K., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). Verbal predicates foster recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant feature—An ERP study. Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 679-689.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.04.005
Bermeitinger, C., Goelz, R., Johr, N., Neumann, M., Ecker, U. K. H., & Doerr, R. (2009). The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 320-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2008.10.001
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Zimmer, H. D. (2009). ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1907-1919. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21135
Wobrock, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Scherk, H., Schneider-Axmann, T., Falkai, P., & Gruber, O. (2009). Cognitive impairment of executive function as a core symptom of schizophrenia. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 10, 442-451.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15622970701849986
Wobrock, T., Schneider, M., Kadovic, D., Schneider-Axmann, T., Ecker, U. K. H., Retz, W., Rösler, M., & Falkai, P. (2008). Reduced cortical inhibition in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 102, 252-261.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2008.06.001
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1483-1501. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193618
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., & Groh-Bordin, C. (2007). The influence of object and background color manipulations on the electrophysiological indices of recognition memory. Brain Research, 1185, 221-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.047
Ecker, U. K. H., Zimmer, H. D., Groh-Bordin, C., & Mecklinger, A. (2007). Context effects on familiarity are familiarity effects of context—An electrophysiological study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 146-156.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.01.005
Groh-Bordin, C., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2006). Has the butcher on the bus dyed his hair? When color changes modulate ERP correlates of familiarity and recollection. NeuroImage, 32, 1879-1890.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.215
Zimmer, H. D., Steiner, A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). How “implicit” are implicit color effects in memory? Experimental Psychology, 49, 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1027//1618-3169.49.2.120
Book chapters, books, and other publications
Sanderson, J. A., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). The challenge of misinformation and ways to reduce its impact. In P. Kendeou, P. van Meter, A. List & D. Lombardi (Eds.), Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961-30
Paynter, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Trembath, D., Sulek, R., & Keen, D. (2019). Misinformation in autism spectrum disorder and education. In P. Kendeou, D. H. Robinson & M. T. McCrudden (Eds.), Misinformation and Fake News in Education (pp. 207-228). Charlotte, NC: IAP.
Swire, B. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Misinformation and its correction: Cognitive mechanisms and recommendations for mass communication. In B. G. Southwell, E. A. Thorson, & L. Sheble (Eds.), Misinformation and Mass Audiences (pp. 195-211). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Why rebuttals may not work: The psychology of misinformation. Media Asia.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2017.1384145
Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Correcting misinformation—A challenge for education and cognitive science. In D. N. Rapp & J. L. G. Braasch (Eds.), Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences (pp. 13-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2007). Objects in context. The neurocognitive representation, binding, and processing of object and context features in recognition memory—An electrophysiological approach. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM.
Ecker, U. K. H., Groh-Bordin, C., & Zimmer, H. D. (2004). Electrophysiological correlates of specific feature binding in remembering—Introducing a neurocognitive model of human memory. In A. Mecklinger, H. D. Zimmer, & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Bound in Memory—Insights from Behavioral and Neuropsychological Studies (pp.159-193). Aachen, Germany: Shaker.
Ecker, U. K. H. (2002). Implicit colour-congruency effects in object priming—A study on token construction in amnesics. Unpublished Honours thesis (“Diplomarbeit”), Saarland University, Germany.