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The Deakin University School of Psychology awards a prize for the Best PhD Publication every year. We’re thrilled to congratulate Misinformation and Social Behaviour Lab PhD student, Maddie North, as the winner of the 2021 prize for her publication ‘North, M.

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Best 4th Year Student Presentation Award. For the first time, we’ve awarded joint winners for this award. Congratulations to Isaac Hayes and Grace Watts for your truly outstanding presentations.

Lab meetings for the past three weeks have been filled with our 4th year students presenting their research plans for the year. It’s a great opportunity for everyone in the lab to get to know more about what their lab-mates are working on.

Today was our first lab meeting for 2022. This year the Misinformation and Social Behaviour Lab has students studying a broad range of topics including climate change, vaccination, dietary behaviours and utopian thinking.

The Misinformation Lab was excited to attend the Australasian Society of Behavioural Health and Medicine again this year. While the conference was originally planned as an in-person event in Perth, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic meant it was converted to an online event.

Dr Mathew Ling and collaborators at Massey University, La Trobe University, Cambridge University, and Philipps-Universität Marburg, have obtained a $360,000 Marsden Fast Start Grant to investigate why New Zealanders fall down the conspiratorial rabbit hole.

Every year the Misinformation Lab runs a “bug bounty” program to incentivise staff and students to detect (and report) errors in research conducted in the lab. Points are awarded for detecting errors before or after studies are conducted and are scaled according to the severity of the error that is detected (i.

The Misinformation Lab is thrilled to congratulated Anna Klas on her promotion to Lecturer! Anna initially joined the School of Psychology as a Teaching Scholar, despite this Anna has been incredibly research active.

This week the Misinformation Lab says goodbye to Josh Rhee who spent the last 6 months with us as a fixed term Research Fellow. Josh will now spend the next few weeks putting the final touches to his PhD thesis before transitioning to a new role at the Behavioural Insights Team.

Our 4th year students recently had the chance to present their exciting research at the 2021 Deakin Psychology Poster Conference. It was fantastic to see the various elements of our 4th years' research projects come together in poster form.