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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🌟 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

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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🔊 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.

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Mikey Biddlestone @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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… 🧵👇

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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

|| 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)

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@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/

Inoculation Theory

A Psychological Vaccine Against

Misinformation

William J. McGuire (1960s)

A VACCINE

1) Warning Message

("do not be fooled")

2) Weakened Dose of Misinformation

(e.g., misinfo with flaws highlighted)

=>

=>

Inoculation

('creation of cognitive antibodies')

Resistance to Persuasion

(Inoculation Effect)

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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/

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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/

Misinformation circa 2025

Jeff Hancock & Ryan Moore

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