Briony Swire Thompson

Briony Swire-Thompson is a cognitive psychologist who investigates what drives belief in inaccurate information, why certain individuals are predisposed to refrain from belief change even in the face of good corrective evidence, and how corrections can be designed to maximize impact. She is a Senior Research Scientist at the Network Science Institute and fellow at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Prior to joining the Network Science Institute, she was a doctoral student at the University of Western Australia’s Cognitive Science Laboratories and a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Political Experiments Research Laboratory.