Emily Spearing
@emilyspearing.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ UWA. Interested in memory, misinfo, and decision-making in applied contexts ๐ง She/her.
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Emily Spearing
Ullrich Ecker
9 days ago
Out now: You sure about that? The effects of textual and image-based skepticism on belief in dubious social-media claims
doi.org/10.1186/s412...
We tested if comments containing merely a skeptical ๐คจ image reduce belief in dubious claims (they do). Led by the excellent
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You sure about that? The effects of textual and image-based Skepticism on belief in dubious social-media claims - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
On social media, people often react to posts using both written comments and images. While prior work has shown that these reactions can influence belief in claims, it has often conflated signals of (...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-026-00725-x
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Emily Spearing
University of Exeter Law School
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Restrictive rules surrounding review by the Criminal Cases Review Commission are preventing the efficient identification of some miscarriages of justice, says a new study by Prof.
@rebeccakhelm.bsky.social
Dir of the Evidence-Based Justice Lab and Dr
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tinyurl.com/mrp4hrf9
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Emily Spearing
Ullrich Ecker
5 months ago
Happy to share a new paper (accepted at J Environ Psych), led by the amazing
@emilyspearing.bsky.social
Black Summer Arson: Examining the Impact of Climate Misinformation and Corrections on Reasoning
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8uv2n_v2
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Emily Spearing
Ullrich Ecker
10 months ago
Very excited to see this out today - led by the fabulous
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@lewan.bsky.social
@brionyswire.bsky.social
@tobyprike.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Countering AI-generated misinformation with pre-emptive source discreditation and debunking | Royal Society Open Science
Despite widespread concerns over AI-generated misinformation, its impact on peopleโs reasoning and the effectiveness of countermeasures remain unclear. This study examined whether a pre-emptive, sourc...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242148
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Emily Spearing
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
11 months ago
Coming soon, a special issue of
#JARMAC
on
#Misinformation
: Current Directions and New Insights, guest edited by Ulli Ecker.
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Emily Spearing
Ullrich Ecker
11 months ago
Glad to see this out! Misinformation-Based Beliefs Can Have Behavioral Consequences A commentray on a thought-provoking article on belief-behavior correspondence by
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@dalbarra.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZC6SF...
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Misinformation-Based Beliefs Can Have Behavioral Consequences
Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZC6SFUMF7TH9BHEQEEN3/full?target=10.1080/1047840X.2025.2482348
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