Publikationen

2025

Lopez-Lopez, E., Abels, C. M., Holford, D., Herzog, S. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). Generative artificial intelligence–mediated confirmation bias in health information seeking. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15413

Abels, C. M., Lopez-Lopez, E., Burton, J. W., Holford, D. L., Brinkmann, L., Herzog, S. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. Behavioral Science & Policy, 11(1), 22–32. DOI: 10.1177/23794607251347020

Lewandowsky, S., Kempe, V., Armaos, K., Hahn, U., Abels, C. M., Wibisono, S., Louis, W., Sah, S., Pagel, C., Jankowicz, N., DiResta, R., Markolin, P., Schönemann, H., Hertwig, R., Crull, H., Mauer, B., Holford, D., Lopez-lopez, E., & Cook, J. (2025). The Anti-Autocracy Handbook. A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15510834

2024

Abels, C. M., Huttunen, K. J. A., Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). Dodging the autocratic bullet: enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding. Behavioural Public Policy, 1–28. DOI: 10.1017/bpp.2024.43

Capewell, G., Maertens, R., Remshard, M., van der Linden, S., Compton, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2024). Misinformation interventions decay rapidly without an immediate posttest. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.13049.

Ecker, U., Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., Tay, L. Q., Cook, J., Oreskes, N., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think. Nature, 630, 29–32. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-01587-3.

Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., Ali, A., Bak-Coleman, J., Barzilai, S., Basol, M., Berinsky, A. J., Betsch, C., Cook, J., Fazio, L. K., Geers, M., Guess, A. M., Huang, H., Larreguy, H., Maertens, R., Panizza, F., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Rathje, S., Reifler, J., Schmid, P, Smith, M., Swire-Thompson, B., & Szewach, P., van der Linden, S., & Wineburg, S. (2024). Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0.

Lewandowsky, S., Garcia, D., Simchon, A., & Carrella, F. (2024). When liars are considered honest. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.03.005.

Simchon, A., Edwards, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). The persuasive effects of political microtargeting in the age of generative AI. PNAS Nexus. DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae035.

Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Thinking clearly about misinformation. Communications Psychology, 2. DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00054-5.

2023

Simchon, A., Sutton, A., Edwards, M. & Lewandowsky, S. (2023). Online reading habits can reveal personality traits: towards detecting psychological microtargeting. PNAS Nexus, 2(6). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad191

Holford, D., Fasce, A., Tapper, K., Demko, M., Lewandowsky, S., Hahn, U., Abels, C. M., Al-Rawi, A., Alladin, S., Sonia Boender, T., Bruns, H., Fischer, H., Gilde, C., Hanel, P. H. P., Herzog, S. M., Kause, A., Lehmann, S., Nurse, M. S., Orr, C., … Wulf, M. (2023). Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation. Science Communication.https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470231162634

Kozyreva, A., Herzog, S. M., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Leiser, M. & Reifler, J. (2023). Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210666120

Prike, T., Reason, R., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2023). Would I lie to you? Party affiliation is more important than Brexit in processing political misinformation. Royal Society Open Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220508

2022

Hornsey, M. J. & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1454–1464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01463-y

Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2022). Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(1), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221121570

Lorenz-Spreen, P., Oswald, L., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2022). A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 74–101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01460-1

Sanderson, J. A., Bowden, V., Swire-Thompson, B., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). Listening to misinformation while driving: Cognitive load and the effectiveness of (repeated) corrections. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000057

Lewandowsky, S., & van der Linden, S. (2022). Interventions Based on Social Norms Could Benefit From Considering Adversarial Information Environments: Comment on Constantino et al. (2022). Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 23(2), 43–49.

Lasser, J., Aroyehun, S. T., Simchon, A., Carrella, F., Garcia, D., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). Social media sharing of low-quality news sources by political elites. PNAS Nexus, 1(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac186

Roozenbeek, J., Van der Linden, S., Goldberg, B., Rathje, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). Psychological innoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media. Science Advances, 8(34). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo6254

Lewandowsky, S., Holford, D., & Schmid, P. (2022). Public policy and conspiracies: The case of mandates. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101427

Ecker, U. K., Sanderson, J. A., McIlhiney, P., Rowsell, J. J., Quekett, H. L., Brown, G. D., & Lewandowsky, S. (2023). Combining refutations and social norms increases belief change. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(6), 1275–1297. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221111750

Bogert, J. M., Ellers, J., Lewandowsky, S., Balgopal, M. M., & Harvey, J. A. (2022). Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future. Ecology & Society, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13134-270207

Yesilada, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). Systematic review: YouTube recommendations and problematic content. Internet Policy Review, 11(1).

Lewandowsky, S. (2022). Fake news and participatory propaganda. In R. F. Pohl (ed.), Cognitive Illusions (pp. 324-340). Routledge.

Newman, D., Lewandowsky, S., & Mayo, R. (2022). Believing in nothing and believing in everything: The underlying cognitive paradox of anti-COVID-19 vaccine attitudes. Personality and Individual Differences, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111522

2021

Swire-Thompson, B., Cook, J., Butler, L. H., Sanderson, J. A., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(83). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00346-6

Lewandowsky, S., & Pomerantsev, P. (2022). Technology and democracy: A paradox wrapped in a contradiction inside an irony. Memory, Mind & Media, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2021.7

Lewandowsky, S., Armaos, K., Bruns, H., Schmid, P., Holford, D. L., Hahn, U., Al-Rawi, A., Sah, S., & Cook, J. (2022). When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 700(1), 26–40. doi.org/10.1177/00027162221084663