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Details for Professor Stephan Lewandowsky
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| Name | Professor Stephan Lewandowsky | ||
| Job title | Chair in Cognitive Psychology |
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| Department | School of Psychological Science University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Wash.College), MA(Tor.), PhD(Tor.) | ||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Psychonomic Society, Cognitive Science Society. |
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| Keywords | misinformation and memory updating acceptance of science models of memory skepticism vs. denial computer simulations General Election 2017 |
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| Areas of expertise | I am a cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. That is, I try to understand how the mind works by writing computer simulations of our memory and decision-making processes. Recently, I have become interested in how people update their memories if things they believe turn out to be false. This has led me to examine the persistence of misinformation in society, and how myths and misinformation can spread. I have become particularly interested in the variables that determine whether or not people accept scientific evidence, for example surrounding vaccinations or climate science. |
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| Media experience | Numerous radio interviews (U.S., U.K., Australia). Nearly 40 OpEds in newspapers such as The Guardian; The Age (Melbourne) and online outlets such as The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (The Drum). Regular contributor to theconversation.com (Australia mainly). Considerable media echo to my recent work on climate "skepticism." |
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