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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Stephan Lewandowsky is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and specializes in the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, health, communication, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as misinformation and its impacts, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, media influence and politics, and climate change communication and perception.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephan Lewandowsky include Dawn Liu Holford, Philipp Schmid, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Linda C. Karlsson, and Anna Soveri.

Published papers by Stephan Lewandowsky cover a range of subjects relevant to misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. Notable recent papers include:

  • "The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction" (2022, Nature Reviews Psychology)
  • "COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II" (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • "Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking" (2021, European Review of Social Psychology)
  • "Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19" (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • "Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools" (2020, Gothic.net)

Stephan Lewandowsky has published extensively in key venues, with frequent contributions to Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, PLoS ONE, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Current Opinion in Psychology.

In addition to articles, the scientist has contributed to books published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and King's College London. Titles include "The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation" (2021), "Fact or Fake? Tackling Science Disinformation" (2021), and "Communicating Science in Times of COVID-19: A Selective Overview of Good Practices" (2021).

Stephan Lewandowsky is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Colleen M. Seifert;Norbert Schwarz

  • Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K.H. Ecker;John Cook

  • Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming

    John Cook;John Cook;Naomi Oreskes;Peter T Doran;William R L Anderegg;William R L Anderegg

  • Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence

    John Cook;John Cook;Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K. H. Ecker Ecker

  • The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Gilles E. Gignac;Klaus Oberauer;Klaus Oberauer

  • NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Gilles E. Gignac

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEANS) II.

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bao S. Loe;Andrew Chadwick;Cristian Vaccari

  • Memory for Serial Order

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Bennet B. Murdock

  • Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Sander van der Linden

  • The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Gilles E. Gignac;Samuel Vaughan

  • Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;David T. W. Tang

  • Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon

    Briony Swire;Adam J. Berinsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K. H. Ecker

  • Fearing the Disease or the Vaccine: The Case of COVID-19

    Linda C. Karlsson;Anna Soveri;Stephan Lewandowsky;Linnea Karlsson

  • Handbook of applied cognition

    Francis T. Durso;Raymond S. Nickerson;Susan T. Dumais;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Simon Farrell;Christopher R Jarrold

  • Motivated Rejection of Science

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer

  • An endogenous distributed model of ordering in serial recall

    Simon Farrell;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • Implicit Memory: Theoretical Issues

    Stephan Lewandowsky;John C. Dunn;Kim Kirsner

  • Computational Modeling in Cognition: Principles and Practice

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Simon Farrell

  • Addressing the theory crisis in psychology

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • Rational Irrationality: Modeling Climate Change Belief Polarization Using Bayesian Networks

    John Cook;John Cook;Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Simon Farrell
Simon Farrell University of Western Australia
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
William E. Hockley
William E. Hockley Wilfrid Laurier University
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Gilles E. Gignac
Gilles E. Gignac University of Western Australia
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge

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