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Ullrich K. H. Ecker is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and has contributed extensively to research within the social sciences, particularly focusing on misinformation and its psychological underpinnings. Their work spans diverse topics connected to social psychology, communication, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study for Ullrich K. H. Ecker include Social Sciences with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Physiology.

Their principal research topics cover:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Media Influence and Health

Ullrich K. H. Ecker has published notable recent papers, including:

  • The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Can you believe it? An investigation into the impact of retraction source credibility on the continued influence effect, 2021, Memory & Cognition

Among other frequently cited studies in the broader research context associated with misinformation and public communication are works such as:

  • Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference, 2021, JMIR Infodemiology
  • Using the president's tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several colleagues, including Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Sander van der Linden, Toby Prike, and Briony Swire-Thompson. These collaborations reflect a network focused on misinformation, memory, and communication strategies.

Ullrich K. H. Ecker has published extensively in journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Their contributions extend to book publications, notably a title published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece: The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation (2021).

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19

    Bernadette Hyland-Wood;John Gardner;Julie Leask;Ullrich K.H. Ecker

  • Correcting false information in memory: manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction.

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Briony Swire;Darren Chang

  • The components of working memory updating: an experimental decomposition and individual differences.

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Abby E. H. Chee

  • The Role of Familiarity in Correcting Inaccurate Information.

    Briony Swire;Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines.

    Ullrich K H Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Ee Pin Chang;Rekha Pillai

  • Do people keep believing because they want to? Preexisting attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation

    Ullrich K H Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Olivia Fenton;Kelsey Martin

  • Reminders and Repetition of Misinformation:: Helping or Hindering Its Retraction?

    Ullrich K.H. Ecker;Joshua L. Hogan;Stephan Lewandowsky

  • A working memory test battery for MATLAB.

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer;Lee-Xieng Yang;Ullrich K. H. Ecker

  • Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process

    Ullrich K.H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Klaus Oberauer

  • The effectiveness of short‐format refutational fact‐checks

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Ziggy O'Reilly;Jesse S. Reid;Ee Pin Chang

  • Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Li Chang Ang

  • Terrorists brought down the plane! --No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Stephan Lewandowsky;Joe Apai

  • A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference.

    Neville Calleja;AbdelHalim AbdAllah;Neetu Abad;Naglaa Ahmed

  • The hidden persuaders break into the tired brain

    Christina Bermeitinger;Ruben Goelz;Nadine Johr;Manfred Neumann

  • Can You Believe it? An Investigation into the Impact of Retraction Source Credibility on the Continued Influence Effect

    Ullrich K H Ecker;Luke M Antonio

  • Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory

    Ullrich K. H. Ecker;Hubert D. Zimmer;Hubert D. Zimmer;Christian Groh-Bordin

  • Working memory updating involves item-specific removal

    Ullrich K.H. Ecker;Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Hubert D. Zimmer
Hubert D. Zimmer Saarland University
Gilles E. Gignac
Gilles E. Gignac University of Western Australia
Klaus Oberauer
Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
David Trembath
David Trembath Griffith University
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
David N. Rapp
David N. Rapp Northwestern University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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