Anastasia Kozyreva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist working on cognitive and ethical implications of digital technologies and artificial intelligence on society. After completing her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, she joined ARC to study rationality and decision-making under uncertainty. Her conceptual research focuses on foundations of risk and uncertainty, bounded rationality, and the challenges that modern digital environments pose to human autonomy and decision making. Her empirical research focuses on public attitudes toward digital technologies and cognitive interventions that could help counteract rising challenges of false information and online manipulation.
Stephan Lewandowsky is a Professor in Cognitive Science at the University of Bristol. He was an Australian Professorial Fellow from 2007 to 2012 and was awarded a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council in 2011. He held a Revesz Visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and received a Wolfson Research Merit Fellowship from the Royal Society upon moving to the United Kingdom in 2013. He was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science in 2017. In 2019, he received a Humboldt Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2016, he was appointed a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for his commitment to science, rational inquiry, and public education. His research examines people’s memory, decision decision-making, and knowledge structures, with a particular emphasis on how people update information in memory. Prof. Lewandowsky’s most recent research examines the persistence of misinformation and spread of “fake news” in society.
Ralph Hertwig is the Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (MPIB). Before taking this position in 2012, Hertwig was Professor for Cognitive and Decision Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher at Columbia University, University of Chicago, and at the MPIB’s Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition. He was appointed a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science in 2011, and a Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) in 2010. In 2017, he received the most important research award in Germany, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. His research focuses on decision-making under conditions of bounded rationality and with the help of ecologically rational heuristics. He also investigates decisions under risk and uncertainty that are made on the basis of symbolic description or first-hand experience (“decisions from experience”). In recent research, he also investigates the intentional choice not to seek out or use available and potentially important knowledge (“deliberate ignorance”). Another line of work in his research program examines policy interventions motivated by behavioral science insights that aim to empower citizens to make better decisions (“boosting”).
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Lisa K. Fazio is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on how people learn new information, both true and false, and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. This focus includes how to mitigate the effects of reading false information and how to increase classroom learning. Her work informs basic theories about learning and memory while also having clear applications for practitioners, such as journalists and teachers. She has received the frank Research Prize in Public Interest Communications and was the 2020 Psychonomic Society award winner of the Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. She is currently an associate editor of digital content for the Psychonomic Society and regularly works to translate psychological science for the general public.
