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h-index: 51
Works: 188
Citations: 12K

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The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, S. Lewandowsky, J. Cook, P. Schmid +5 more
2022Nature Reviews Psychology1,210 citations Open access
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Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19
Bernadette Hyland-Wood, J. Gardner, J. Leask, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2021434 citations Open access
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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
V. Cologna, N. Mede, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley +237 more
2025Nature Human Behaviour294 citations Open access
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The Debunking Handbook 2020
S. Lewandowsky, J. Cook, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, D. Albarracín +18 more
2020202 citations
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Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
A. Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan M. Herzog, Ullrich K. H. Ecker +26 more
2024Nature Human Behaviour189 citations Open access
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A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference
N. Calleja, Abdelhalim AbdAllah, N. Abad, N. Ahmed +68 more
2021JMIR infodemiology124 citations Open access
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Can you believe it? An investigation into the impact of retraction source credibility on the continued influence effect
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Luk Antonio
2020Memory & Cognition120 citations Open access
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Can corrections spread misinformation to new audiences? Testing for the elusive familiarity backfire effect
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, S. Lewandowsky, M. Chadwick
2020Cognitive Research112 citations Open access
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The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation
John Cook, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Melanie I. Trecek-King, G. Schade +8 more
2022Environmental Education Research104 citations Open access
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Running head: THE PREVALENCE OF MISINFORMATION They Might be a Liar but They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation
B. Swire-Thompson, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, S. Lewandowsky, Adam J. Berinsky
2019103 citations
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A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation.
Li-Qian Tay, Mark J. Hurlstone, T. Kurz, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2021British Journal of Psychology97 citations Open access
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Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, J. Roozenbeek, S. van der Linden, Li-Qian Tay +3 more
2024Nature96 citations Open access
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Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media
S. Lewandowsky, Michael Jetter, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2020Nature Communications91 citations Open access
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Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy
Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, J. Cook, S. van der Linden +2 more
2023Current Opinion in Psychology70 citations Open access
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Effective correction of misinformation.
Toby Prike, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2023Current Opinion in Psychology58 citations Open access
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Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world
V. Cologna, Simona Meiler, Chahan M. Kropf, Samuel Lüthi +205 more
2025Nature Climate Change53 citations Open access
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Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments.
Douglas MacFarlane, Mark J. Hurlstone, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2020Social Science & Medicine (1967)51 citations
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Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation
B. Swire-Thompson, J. Cook, Lucy H. Butler, Jasmyne A. Sanderson +2 more
2021Cognitive Research50 citations Open access
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Source-credibility information and social norms improve truth discernment and reduce engagement with misinformation online
Toby Prike, Lucy H. Butler, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2024Scientific Reports46 citations Open access
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Refuting Spurious COVID-19 Treatment Claims Reduces Demand and Misinformation Sharing
Douglas MacFarlane, Qian-Tay Li, Mark J. Hurlstone, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2020Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition45 citations Open access
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The (Mis)Information Game: A social media simulator
Lucy H. Butler, Padraig X. Lamont, D. Wan, Toby Prike +4 more
2023Behavior Research Methods44 citations Open access
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Why misinformation must not be ignored.
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Li-Qian Tay, J. Roozenbeek, S. van der Linden +3 more
2024American Psychologist43 citations Open access
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You don’t have to tell a story! A registered report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lucy H. Butler, Anne Hamby
2020Cognitive Research40 citations Open access
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Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lucy H. Butler, J. Cook, Mark J. Hurlstone +2 more
2020Journal of Environmental Psychology39 citations Open access
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Best Practices for Ethical Conduct of Misinformation Research
Ciara M. Greene, C. de Saint Laurent, G. Murphy, Toby Prike +2 more
2022European Psychologist36 citations Open access
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Corrections of political misinformation: no evidence for an effect of partisan worldview in a US convenience sample
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Brandon K. N. Sze, Matthew Andreotta
2020Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences33 citations Open access
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Correcting vaccine misinformation: A failure to replicate familiarity or fear-driven backfire effects
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Caitlin X M Sharkey, B. Swire-Thompson
2023PLoS ONE30 citations Open access
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Countering AI-generated misinformation with pre-emptive source discreditation and debunking
Emily R. Spearing, Constantina I. Gile, Amy L. Fogwill, Toby Prike +3 more
2025Royal Society Open Science27 citations Open access
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Listening to Misinformation while Driving: Cognitive Load and the Effectiveness of (Repeated) Corrections
Jasmyne A. Sanderson, Vanessa Bowden, B. Swire-Thompson, S. Lewandowsky +1 more
2022Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition27 citations Open access
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Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
N. Mede, V. Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley +237 more
2025Scientific Data25 citations Open access
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Nudge-based misinformation interventions are effective in information environments with low misinformation prevalence
Lucy H. Butler, Toby Prike, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2024Scientific Reports25 citations Open access
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Social endorsement influences the continued belief in corrected misinformation.
Lucy H. Butler, N. Fay, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2022Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition24 citations Open access
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Don’t believe them! Reducing misinformation influence through source discreditation
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Toby Prike, Antonia B Paver, Rosie Scott +1 more
2024Cognitive Research22 citations Open access
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Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement
Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook, S. van der Linden +3 more
2024Humanities and Social Sciences Communications22 citations Open access
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Reducing demand for overexploited wildlife products: Lessons from systematic reviews from outside conservation science
Douglas MacFarlane, Mark J. Hurlstone, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Paul J. Ferraro +8 more
2020Conservation Science and Practice21 citations Open access
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Higher operating theatre temperature during burn surgery increases physiological heat strain, subjective workload, and fatigue of surgical staff
Zehra Palejwala, K. Wallman, S. Maloney, G. Landers +3 more
2023PLoS ONE20 citations Open access
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Combining Refutations and Social Norms Increases Belief Change
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Jasmyne A. Sanderson, Paul McIlhiney, J. Rowsell +3 more
2022Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology20 citations Open access
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Thinking clearly about misinformation
Qian-Tay Li, Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark J. Hurlstone, Tim Kurz +1 more
2024Communications psychology19 citations Open access
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Examining the replicability of backfire effects after standalone corrections
Toby Prike, Phoebe Blackley, B. Swire-Thompson, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2023Cognitive Research18 citations Open access
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Interference control in working memory: Evidence for discriminant validity between removal and inhibition tasks
Alodie Rey-Mermet, Krishneil A. Singh, G. Gignac, Christopher R. Brydges +1 more
2020PLoS ONE16 citations Open access
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Losses, hopes, and expectations for sustainable futures after COVID
S. Lewandowsky, K. Facer, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2021Humanities and Social Sciences Communications15 citations Open access
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Working memory capacity, removal efficiency and event specific memory as predictors of misinformation reliance
Jasmyne A. Sanderson, G. Gignac, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
202115 citations
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A Combination of Ice Ingestion and Head Cooling Enhances Cognitive Performance during Endurance Exercise in the Heat.
N. S. Mazalan, G. Landers, K. Wallman, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2021Journal of Sports Science and Medicine15 citations Open access
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Do False Allegations Persist? Retracted Misinformation Does Not Continue to Influence Explicit Person Impressions
Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Arnold E. Rodricks
202014 citations Open access
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Helpful or harmful? The effect of a diagnostic label and its later retraction on person impressions.
Amy Mickelberg, B. Walker, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Nicolas Fay
2024Acta Psychologica13 citations Open access
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Electrophysiological correlates of the continued influence effect of misinformation: an exploratory study
Christopher R. Brydges, Andrew Gordon, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2020Journal of Cognitive Psychology13 citations Open access
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The Challenge of Misinformation and Ways to Reduce its Impact
Jasmyne A. Sanderson, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
202013 citations
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Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking
J. Cook, S. van der Linden, S. Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
202013 citations
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Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science
N. Mede, V. Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley +206 more
2025Science communication12 citations Open access
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Misinformation and the Sins of Memory: False-Belief Formation and Limits on Belief Revision
E. Newman, B. Swire-Thompson, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
2022Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition12 citations Open access
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