Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
ARC Future Fellow (2020-2024)
ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2011-2015)
PhD (2007) and Dipl.Psych. (2003) from Saarland University, Germany
Roles and responsibilities
2017-2019: Director, Community and Engagement
2016-2019: Unit coordinator PSYC4410
2016-2019: Honours Conference Organizer
2015-2019: School Colloquium Organizer
2010-2019: Unit coordinator PSYC2215/PSYC3315
Funding overview
ARC
Australian Department of Social Services
Worldwide Universities Network
UWA
Australian Department of Social Services
Worldwide Universities Network
UWA
Current projects
2020-2024 ARC Future Fellowship "Combating Misinformation – Designing a Toolkit to Address a Global Problem", AU$1m+
2017 Australian Department of Social Services ASELLC Research Project, “Debunking autism treatment myths”, Paynter et al., AU$89k+
2016-2019 ARC Discovery Project, “The psychology of misinformation—Towards a theory-driven understanding”, with S Lewandowsky (Bristol) & G Brown (Warwick), AU$434k+
2013 WUN Research Development Award, Responding and adapting to climate change: Recognizing and managing uncertainty in the physical, social, and public spheres, Lewandowsky et al., GBP13k+
2013 UWA Research Collaboration Award, Memory Models and Neuroimaging, Ecker, Lewandowsky, Bayliss, Jarrold, Farrell, Brooks, Thai, Briscoe, Cook, & Swire, AU$19k
2011 ARC Discovery Project, Memory consolidation-Integrating cognitive science and neuroscience approaches to how we remember and how we forget, with M Maybery (UWA), G Brown (Warwick) & R Henson (Cambridge), AU$422k
Industrial relevance
I am an expert on human memory and the effects of misinformation on reasoning and decision making. My research can inform communication strategies, in particular when trying to debunk myths.
Teaching overview
PSYC2215/3315 - Cognitive Psychology
PSYC4410 - Psychological Research Communication Skills
PSYC1101 - Mind and Brain (Cognition module)
PSYC3311 - Specialist Research Topics (2012-2013)
PSYC4410 - Psychological Research Communication Skills
PSYC1101 - Mind and Brain (Cognition module)
PSYC3311 - Specialist Research Topics (2012-2013)
Research
The psychology of misinformation
Memory updating
Forgetting
Binding in memory
Memory updating
Forgetting
Binding in memory
Languages
German
English
English
Keywords
- Memory
- Memory and information processing
- Long-term memory
- Short-term memory and working memory
- Psychophysiology
- Computational models of memory
- Misinformation
- False beliefs
- Belief change
- Behaviour change
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Research Output 2002 2020
Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. & Ecker, U., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Social Science & Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
taxonomy
driver
Psychology
Health
health
Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation-Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking
Paynter, J., Luskin-Saxby, S., Keen, D., Fordyce, K., Frost, G., Imms, C., Miller, S., Trembath, D., Tucker, M. & Ecker, U., 30 Jan 2019, In : PLoS One. 14, 1, 13 p., 0210746.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
How Stories in Memory Perpetuate the Continued Influence of False Information
Hamby, A., Ecker, U. & Brinberg, D., 7 Aug 2019, In : Journal of Consumer Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Communication
Research Personnel
Research
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J. C. W., Ecker, U. K. H. & Lewandowsky, S., 1 Jun 2019, In : NeuroImage. 193, p. 46-56 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Communication
Parietal Lobe
Research Personnel
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Not wallowing in misery–retractions of negative misinformation are effective in depressive rumination
Chang, E. P., Ecker, U. K. H. & Page, A. C., 2019, In : Cognition and Emotion. 33, 5, p. 991-1005Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Communication
Rumination
World View
Datasets
Processing inaccurate information data
Swire, B. (Creator), Berinsky, A. J. (Creator), Lewandowsky, S. (Creator), Ecker, U. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 3 Feb 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nc571, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.nc571
Dataset
Projects 2009 2022
Combating Misinformation – Designing a Toolkit to Address a Global Problem
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
The Psychology of Misinformation—Towards A Theory-driven Understanding
Ecker, U., Lewandowsky, S. & Brown, G.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Memory Models and Neuroimaging.
Ecker, U., Lewandowsky, S., Bayliss, D., Cook, J., Jarrold, C., Farrell, S., Brooks, J., Thai, J. & Briscoe, J.
University of Western Australia
1/01/14 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Externally Led WUN - Responding & Adapting to Climate Change - Recognising & Managing Uncertainty in the Physical Social & Public Spheres
Ecker, U., Bates, P., Bayley, P., Hewitson, B., Wu, F., Dessai, S., Alley, R. & Hawks, J.
Worldwide Universities Network
1/01/14 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Memory Consolidation - Integrating Cognitive Science & Neuroscience Approaches to How We Remember & How We Forget
Ecker, U., Maybery, M., Henson, R. & Brown, G.
1/01/11 → 31/12/14
Project: Research