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Ecker, U. K. H., Tay, L. Q., Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., Cook, J., Oreskes, N., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). Why misinformation must not be ignored. American Psychologist.
Prike, T., Holloway, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Intellectual humility is associated with greater misinformation discernment and metacognitive insight. Advances.in/Psychology. https://doi.org/10.56296/aip00025
Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. H., Jiang, Y., Platow, M. P., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Causal inference in misinformation and conspiracy research. Advances.in/Psychology. https://doi.org/10.56296/aip00023
Ecker, U. K. H., Prike, T., Paver, A. B., Scott, R. J., & Swire-Thompson, B. (2024). Don’t believe them! Reducing misinformation influence through source discreditation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9, 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00581-7
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Cook, J., van der Linden, S., Roozenbeek, J., Oreskes, N., & McIntyre, L. C. (2024). Liars know they are lying: Differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03503-6
Mickelberg, A. J., Walker, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Fay, N. (2024). Helpful or harmful? The effect of a diagnostic label and its later retraction on person impressions. Acta Psychologica, 248, 104420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104420
Ecker, U. K. H., Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., Tay, L. Q., Cook, J., Oreskes, N., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). Misinformation remains a threat to democracy. Nature, 630, 29-32. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01587-3
Butler, L. H., Prike, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Nudge-based misinformation interventions are effective in information environments with low misinformation prevalence. Scientific Reports, 14, 11495. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62286-7
Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R. et al. (2024). Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0 [Supplement]
Tay, L. Q., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Continued influence of misinformation and the information disorder. In Q. Wang & Hoskins, A. (Eds.), The remaking of memory in the age of the internet and social media. Oxford University Press.
Prike, T., Butler, L. H., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Source-credibility information and social norms improve truth discernment and reduce engagement with misinformation online. Scientific Reports, 14, 6900. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57560-7
Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. H., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Thinking clearly about misinformation. Communications Psychology, 2, 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5
Mickelberg, A. J., Walker, B., Ecker, U. K. H., Howe, P. D. L., Perfors, A., & Fay, N. (2024). Does mud really stick? No evidence for continued influence of misinformation on newly formed person impressions. Collabra: Psychology, 10, 92332. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.92332
Butler, L. H., Fay, N., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Others (dis-)endorse this so it must (not) be true: High relative endorsement increases perceived misinformation veracity but not correction effectiveness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38, e4146. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4146
Taggart, S. M., Girard, O., Landers, G. J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Wallman, K. E. (2024). Effect of a 14-day swing in a hot environment on cognitive function and psycho-physiological response in mine service workers. Applied Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104241
Prike, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Effective correction of misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 54, 101712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101712
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Cook, J., van der Linden, S., Roozenbeek, J., & Oreskes, N. (2023). Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 54, 101711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101711
Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. H., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-124
Taggart, S. M., Girard, O., Landers, G. J., Ecker, U. K. H., Wallman, K. E. (2023). Comparing thermal strain in outdoor maintenance and indoor service workers in the mining industry during summer. PLOS ONE, 18, e0292436. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292436
Vraga, E. K., Ecker, U. K. H., Žeželj, I., Lazić, A., Azlan, A. A. (2023). To debunk or not to debunk? Correcting (mis)information. In T. D. Purnat, T. Nguyen, S. Briand (Eds.), Managing infodemics in the 21st century. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-27789-4_7
Prike, T., Blackley, P., Swire-Thompson, B., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Examining the replicability of backfire effects after standalone corrections. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-023-00492-z
Butler, L. H., Lamont, P. X., Law Yim Wan, D. B., Prike, T., Nasim, M., Walker, B., Fay, N., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). The (Mis)Information Game: A social media simulator. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02153-x
Palejwala, Z., Wallman, K. E., Maloney, S., Landers, G. J., Ecker, U. K. H., Fear, M. W., & Wood, F. M. (2023). Higher operating theatre temperature during burn surgery increases physiological heat strain, subjective workload, and fatigue of surgical staff. PLOS ONE, 18, e0286746. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286746
Ecker, U. K. H., Sharkey, C. X. M., & Swire-Thompson, B. (2023). Correcting vaccine misinformation: A failure to replicate familiarity or fear-driven backfire effects. PLOS ONE, 18, e0281140. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281140
Butler, L. H. & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Misinformation in open and closed online platforms: Impacts and countermeasures. In C. Soon (Ed.), Mobile communication and online falsehoods in Asia: Trends, impact and practice. Springer.
Tay, L. Q. (2023). Can higher social status of competitors cause decision makers to commit more errors? In M. Goldwater, F. Anggoro, B. Hayes, & D. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85d620jz
Taggart, S. M., Girard, O., Landers, G. J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Wallman, K. E. (2023). Seasonal influence on cognitive and psycho-physiological responses to a single 11-h day of work in outdoor mine industry workers. Temperature, 10, 465-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2023.2208516
McIlhiney, P., Gignac, G. E., Ecker, U. K. H., Kennedy, B. L., & Weinborn, M. (2023). Executive function and the continued influence of misinformation: A latent variable analysis. PLOS ONE, 18, e0283951. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283951
Prike, T., Reason, R., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2023). Would I lie to you? Party affiliation is more important than Brexit in processing political misinformation. Royal Society Open Science, 10, 220508. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220508
Greene, C. M., de Saint Laurent, C., Murphy, G., Prike, T., Hegarty, K., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Best practices for ethical conduct of misinformation research: A scoping review and critical commentary. European Psychologist, 28, 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000491
Kirmsse, A., Zimmer, H. D., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Task demands differentially affect processing of intrinsic and extrinsic object features in working memory: Electrophysiological evidence for an intrinsic processing advantage. Experimental Psychology, 69, 320-334. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000572
Baess, P., Ecker, U. K. H., Janssen, S. M. J., Jin, Z., & Bermeitinger, C. (2023). What Simon “knows” about cultural differences: The influence of different self-concepts and spatial orientations on cognitive control. Memory & Cognition, 51, 526–542. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01360-9
Butler, L. H., Fay, N., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Social endorsement influences the continued belief in corrected misinformation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12, 364-375. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000080 [Supplements]
Sanderson, J. A., Bowden, V., Swire-Thompson, B., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Listening to misinformation while driving: Cognitive load and the effectiveness of (repeated) corrections. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12, 325-334. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000057 [Supplement]
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Trecek-King, M., Schade, G., Jeffers-Tracy, K., Fessmann, J., Kim, S. C., Kinkead, D., Orr, M., Vraga, E., Roberts, K., & McDowell, J. (2023). The Cranky Uncle game—Combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation. Environmental Education Research, 29, 607-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2085671
Ecker, U. K. H., Sanderson, J. A., McIlhiney, P., Rowsell, J. J., Quekett, H. L., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2023). Combining refutations and social norms increases belief change. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 1275-1297. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221111750
Newman, E. J., Swire-Thompson, B., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). Misinformation and the sins of memory: False-belief formation and limits on belief revision. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, 11, 471-477. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000090
Sanderson, J. A., Farrell, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). Examining the role of information integration in the continued influence effect using an event segmentation approach. PLOS ONE, 17, e0271566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271566 [Supplement]
Tay, L. Q. (2022). Rethinking graphical causal models. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00088-2
Mazalan, N. S., Landers, G. J., Wallman, K. E., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). Ice ingestion maintains cognitive performance during a repeated sprint performance in the heat. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 21, 164-170. https://doi.org/10.52082/jssm.2022.164
Mickelberg, A., Walker, B., Ecker, U. K. H., Howe, P., Perfors, A., & Fay, N. (2022). Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. PLOS ONE, 17, e0269393. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269393
Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation. British Journal of Psychology, 113, 591-607. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12551
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., Ecker, U. K. H., Ferraro, P. J., van der Linden, S., Wan, A. K. Y., Veríssimo, D., Burgess, G., Chen, F., Hall, W., Hollands, G. J., & Sutherland, W. J. (2022). Reducing demand for overexploited wildlife products: Lessons from systematic reviews from outside conservation science. Conservation Science and Practice, 4, e627. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.627
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, 1, 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00006-y
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, 6, 83. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00346-6
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, 75, 1259–1271. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211048986
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, 33, 518-532. 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. (2021). Refuting spurious COVID-19 treatment claims reduces demand and misinformation sharing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 248–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.005
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Countering demand for ineffective health remedies: Do consumers respond to risks, lack of benefits, or both? Psychology & Health, 36, 593-611. [Supplement] https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1774056
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 continue to influence explicit person impressions. 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). 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
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.
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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]
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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.
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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
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.
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
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.
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.
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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
Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Why rebuttals may not work: The psychology of misinformation. Media Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2017.1384145
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
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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
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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
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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]
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