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Rakoen Maertens
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Juliana Cuyler Matthews Junior Research Fellow @ New College, University of Oxford | Behavioural Science & Counter-Mis/Disinformation | Co-Chair SPSP @ United Nations | PhD (University of Cambridge) | www.rakoenmaertens.com
🔊 Announcement: Today I am starting as a Visiting Fellow at the Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (‪@shorensteinctr.bsky.social) at the Harvard Kennedy School (‪@harvardkennedy.bsky.social‬), with a Fulbright scholarship award.
September 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Our article "Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs" has now been published open access in JESP!
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August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
|| New Publication (Nature Communications)

Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this

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March 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reposted by Rakoen Maertens
@rakoenmaertens.bsky.social at #SPSP2025 discussing the long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation. Intervention decays over time, effects mostly gone after 1 week, related to memory decay. Boosters (short reminders) are useful & slow decay. Testing ppls skills also slows decay 1/
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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That's it for the Misinformation and Belief Science preconference at #SPSP2025. @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social and I are so proud of what this conference has become and that it will continue without us in future years. 21/
February 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Here we go! 3rd installment of the misinformation and belief science preconference at #SPSP2025. First up is Jeff Hancock talking about the truth-default theory of deception detection. We are all truth-biased, expect ppl to be honest and most are but we can shift out of that mindset when cued. 1/
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM