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Emily Spearing

@emilyspearing.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ UWA. Interested in memory, misinfo, and decision-making in applied contexts 🧠 She/her.

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Misinformation as strategy: Epistemic consequences and the undermining of shared truth Review by Ullrich Ecker (@ulliecker.bsky.social), Emily Spearing (@emilyspearing.bsky.social), Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social), & Stephan Lewandowsky (@lewan.uk) tinyurl.com/yces8vpr
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy to see this out! There was a suggestion in the literature that susceptibility to continued influence of misinformation decreases with age; we suggest here that this was an artefact and age does not play a big role. Led by the excellent Paul McIlhiney. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Influence of Age on the Effectiveness of Misinformation Retractions
Misinformation has become a much-discussed issue in public and academic domains. One harmful aspect of misinformation is that it can persistently influence people's judgements after clear and credibl...
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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 🤨 image reduce belief in dubious claims (they do). Led by the excellent @emilyspearing.bsky.social
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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 (...
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University of Exeter Law School @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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 @emilyspearing.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mrp4hrf9
The front cover of a report called Testimony Evaluation in criminal cases review commission casework. There is a logo of the evidence based justice lab and the University of Exeter, and two legal icons of a court building and a judge.
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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... @johnfocook.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Very excited to see this out today - led by the fabulous @emilyspearing.bsky.social @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 people’s reasoning and the effectiveness of countermeasures remain unclear. This study examined whether a pre-emptive, sourc...
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Coming soon, a special issue of #JARMAC on #Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights, guest edited by Ulli Ecker. @apajournals.bsky.social
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Ullrich Ecker @ulliecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Glad to see this out! Misinformation-Based Beliefs Can Have Behavioral Consequences A commentray on a thought-provoking article on belief-behavior correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @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)
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