Briony Swire-Thompson is the Director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab. Her research examines what drives belief in inaccurate information, why people share misinformation online, and how corrections can be designed to maximize impact. Prior to joining the Network Science Institute, she was a doctoral student at the University of Western Australia’s Cognitive Science Laboratories and a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently funded by a Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer misinformation.
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Portland, ME 04101
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Latest publications
Cognition
January 3, 2023
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
July 12, 2021
Journal of Applied Memory and Cognition
May 14, 2020
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