Michael Geers

Alumna/Alumnus
LIFE Berlin

LIFE Fellow from 2020 to 2024, MPI for Human Development


Dissertation defended at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in October 2024

Understanding and Boosting Decision Making in Online Environments

(Advisor: Ralph Hertwig)


Selected Publications

Geers, M., Fischer, H., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog, S. M. (2024). The political (a)symmetry of metacognitive insight into detecting misinformation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(8), 1961–1972. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001600

Geers, M., Swire-Thompson, B., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Kozyreva, A., & Hertwig, R. (2024). The Online Misinformation Engagement Framework. Current Opinion in Psychology, 55, Article 101739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101739

Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., ...   Geers, M. ... Wineburg, S. (2024). Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1044–1052. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0

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