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Affiliate

Briony Swire-Thompson

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Research Interests

  • Why people believe in misinformation

  • Why people share misinformation online

  • How corrections can be designed to foster belief change

About

Briony Swire-Thompson is the director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab. Her work investigates the driving factors behind beliefs in inaccurate information, as well as why some individuals are predisposed to not change misconceptions even when confronted with corrective information.

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