Lewandowsky

Datos Biográficos

ID44446
NOMBRELewandowsky
APELLIDOLewandowsky
FIRMALEWANDOWSKY
AFILIACIONESThe University of Western Australia
ORCID0000-0003-1655-2013
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS71
TOTAL DE CITAS232
TOTAL COMO AUTOR71
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1989
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8

  • A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages

    Open AccessJan Gerrit Voelkel, Ashwini Ashokkumar et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026

  • That’s not my truth

    Open AccessDiego Avendaño, Dawn Liu Holford et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2026

  • Misinformation is both a symptom and a cause

    Open AccessLi Qian Tay, Sander Van Der Linden et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2026

    In their commentary, Altay and Mercier (2026) frame misinformation as a mere symptom of deeper underlying societal problems. Here, we highlight a more nuanced causal account involving reciprocal effects, where misinformation can act as a cause of societal issues, which in turn can simultaneously act as a cause of misinformation belief. When it comes to the total causal impact of misinformation, we note the importance of taking into account not on…

  • A randomized controlled trial of empathetic refutational learning with health care professionals

    Open AccessDawn Liu Holford, Dawn Holford et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Brief empathetic refutational interview text scenarios can increase health care professionals' use of affirmations when discussing vaccines with patients. Additional materials are needed to efficiently teach refutations of attitude roots

  • Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition

    Open AccessSegun T Aroyehun, Almog Simchon et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Referencias: 40

    Pursuit of honest and truthful decision-making is crucial for governance and accountability in democracies. However, people sometimes take different perspectives of what it means to be honest and how to pursue truthfulness. Here we explore a continuum of perspectives from evidence-based reasoning, rooted in ascertainable facts and data, at one end, to intuitive decisions that are driven by feelings and subjective interpretations, at the other. We…

  • Healthcare Professionals' Emotions of Distance and Connection When Dealing With Patients' Vaccine Hesitancy

    Open AccessEmeline Brosset, Emma Anderson et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2025Referencias: 55

    Healthcare professionals (HCPs) play a primary role in the delivery of population-based vaccination programs. Their emotional well-being can influence the quality of their relationships with patients and generally the outcome of their consultations. This qualitative study sought to identify the types of emotions that HCPs feel during conversations with vaccine-hesitant patients and their styles of interaction. Semi-structured interviews were cond…

  • Identifying the underlying psychological constructs from self-expressed anti-vaccination argumentation

    Open AccessDawn Liu Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    People’s negative attitudes to vaccines can be motivated by psychological factors—such as fears, ideological beliefs, and cognitive patterns—known as ‘attitude roots’. This study had two primary objectives: (1) to identify which of 11 known attitude roots are featured in individuals’ self-expressed reasons for negative vaccine attitudes (i.e., a linguistic analysis); (2) to explore how attitude roots present in self-expressed texts are linked to …

  • Liars know they are lying

    Open AccessLewandowsky, Ullrich K H Ecker et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    Mis- and disinformation pose substantial societal challenges, and have thus become the focus of a substantive field of research. However, the field of misinformation research has recently come under scrutiny on two fronts. First, a political response has emerged, claiming that misinformation research aims to censor conservative voices. Second, some scholars have questioned the utility of misinformation research altogether, arguing that misinforma…

  • The UK public’s trust in tobacco industry involvement in science – an experimental survey

    Open AccessTess Legg, Lisa Bero et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2024

    Introduction Despite the tobacco industry’s (TI) decades-long history of manipulating science, Philip Morris International (PMI) now frames itself as a benevolent funder of science and, in 2017, launched a new scientific organisation, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). With concerns mounting that PMI’s actions are echoing historical TI influence on science, we aimed to understand the extent to which the public trusts PMI’s involvement …

  • Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption

    Open AccessLewandowsky, Ronald E Robertson et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2024

    Most content consumed online is curated by proprietary algorithms deployed by social media platforms and search engines. In this article, we explore the interplay between these algorithms and human agency. Specifically, we consider the extent of entanglement or coupling between humans and algorithms along a continuum from implicit to explicit demand. We emphasize that the interactions people have with algorithms not only shape users’ experiences …

  • Testing Psychological Inoculation to Reduce Reactance to Vaccine-Related Communication

    Open AccessLinda C Karlsson, Karl O Mäki et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Research has found that vaccine-promoting messages can elicit state reactance (i.e., negative emotions in response to a perceived threat to behavioral freedom), especially among individuals with high trait reactance (i.e., proneness to experiencing reactance). This can result in a lower willingness to accept vaccines. We investigated whether inoculation against reactance – that is, forewarning individuals about potentially experiencing reactance …

  • Dodging the autocratic bullet

    Open AccessChristoph M Abels, Kiia Jasmin Alexandra Huttunen et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2024Referencias: 60

    Despite a long history of research on democratic backsliding, the process itself − in which the executive branch amasses power and undermines democratic processes and institutions − remains poorly understood. We seek to shed light on the underlying mechanisms by studying democratic near misses: cases in which a period of autocratic governance is quickly reversed or full backsliding is prevented at the last minute. Building on the literature on ne…

  • Why misinformation must not be ignored

    Open AccessUllrich K H Ecker, Li Qian Tay et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2024Citada por: 5

    Recent academic debate has seen the emergence of the claim that misinformation is not a significant societal problem. We argue that the arguments used to support this minimizing position are flawed, particularly if interpreted (e.g., by policymakers or the public) as suggesting that misinformation can be safely ignored. Here, we rebut the two main claims, namely that misinformation is not of substantive concern (a) due to its low incidence and (b…

  • Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

    Open AccessGordon Pennycook, Adam J Berinsky et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 41

  • Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

    Open AccessAnastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Citada por: 12Referencias: 73

  • A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

    Open AccessAngelo Fasce, Peter Schmid et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023

  • Spillover effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on attitudes to influenza and childhood vaccines

    Open AccessAnna Soveri, Linda C Karlsson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The current study sought to determine whether public perceptions of other vaccines and diseases than COVID-19 have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We longitudinally examined whether there had been a change from before the COVID-19 pandemic to during the pandemic in: (a) influenza vaccination behaviour and intentions; (b) the perceived benefit of childhood vaccines and influenza vaccines; (c) the perceived safety of childhood vaccines and …

  • Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor

    Open AccessDawn Liu Holford, Angelo Fasce et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 35

    Effective science communication is challenging when scientific messages are informed by a continually updating evidence base and must often compete against misinformation. We argue that we need a new program of science communication as collective intelligence—a collaborative approach, supported by technology. This would have four key advantages over the typical model where scientists communicate as individuals: scientific messages would be inform…

  • From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians

    Open AccessJon Lasser, Segun T Aroyehun et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 56

    The spread of online misinformation on social media is increasingly perceived as a problem for societal cohesion and democracy. The role of political leaders in this process has attracted less research attention, even though politicians who 'speak their mind' are perceived by segments of the public as authentic and honest even if their statements are unsupported by evidence. By analysing communications by members of the US Congress on Twitter bet…

  • Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK

    Open AccessDaniel Freeman, Bao Sheng Loe et al.ARTICLEPsychological Medicine2022

    Background Our aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and, principally, determine potential causes in order to guide information provision. Methods A non-probability online survey was conducted (24th September−17th October 2020) with 5,114 UK adults, quota sampled to match the population for age, gender, ethnicity, income, and region. The Oxford …

  • Systematic review

    Open AccessMuhsin Yesilada, LewandowskyARTICLEInternet Policy Review2022

    There has been much concern that social media, in particular YouTube, may facilitate radicalisation and polarisation of online audiences. This systematic review aimed to determine whether the YouTube recommender system facilitates pathways to problematic content such as extremist or radicalising material. The review conducted a narrative synthesis of the papers in this area. It assessed the eligibility of 1,187 studies and excluded studies using …

  • Thinking about climate change

    Open AccessChristopher J Davis, Colin J Davis et al.ARTICLEThinking & Reasoning2022

    We introduce this special issue on Thinking about Climate Change by reflecting on the role of psychology in responding adaptively to catastrophic global threats. By way of illustration we compare the threat posed by climate change with the extinction-level threat considered in the recent film Don’t Look Up [McKay, A. (Director). (2021). Don’t Look Up [Film]. Hyperobject Industries]. Human psychology is a critical element in both scenarios. The pa…

  • A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

    Open AccessPhilipp Lorenz-Spreen, Laura Oswald et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2022

    One of today’s most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence ( N = 496 articles) on the link between digital media use and different political variables. Some associations, such as increasing political participation and information consumption, are likely to be beneficial for democracy an…

  • Technology and democracy

    Open AccessLewandowsky, Peter PomerantsevARTICLEMemory Mind & Media2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 40

    Democracy is in retreat around the globe. Many commentators have blamed the Internet for this development, whereas others have celebrated the Internet as a tool for liberation, with each opinion being buttressed by supporting evidence. We try to resolve this paradox by reviewing some of the pressure points that arise between human cognition and the online information architecture, and their fallout for the well-being of democracy. We focus on the…

  • When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict

    Open AccessLewandowsky, Stephan Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 69

    We explore the common attributes of political conflicts in which scientific findings have a central role, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, but also drawing on long-standing conflicts over climate change and vaccinations. We analyze situations in which the systematic spread of disinformation or conspiracy theories undermines public trust in the work of scientists and prevents policy from being informed by the best available evidence. W…