🌟 Congratulations to @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social, who was awarded The Brenda Milner Best Paper Prize by a PhD or MPhil Student in the Cambridge Department of Psychology

🔊 Announcement: Today I am starting as a Visiting Fellow at the Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (‪@shorensteinctr.bsky.social) at the Harvard Kennedy School (‪@harvardkennedy.bsky.social‬), with a Fulbright scholarship award.

Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP! @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… 🧵👇

|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press Release www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03... Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)

@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social at #SPSP2025 discussing the long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation. Intervention decays over time, effects mostly gone after 1 week, related to memory decay. Boosters (short reminders) are useful & slow decay. Testing ppls skills also slows decay 1/

That's it for the Misinformation and Belief Science preconference at #SPSP2025. @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social and I are so proud of what this conference has become and that it will continue without us in future years. 21/

Here we go! 3rd installment of the misinformation and belief science preconference at #SPSP2025. First up is Jeff Hancock talking about the truth-default theory of deception detection. We are all truth-biased, expect ppl to be honest and most are but we can shift out of that mindset when cued. 1/