Sultan, Mubashir

• 2025 - Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• 2021 - 2025: Ph.D. Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• 2019 - 2021: M.Sc. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam
• 2017 - 2019: M.Sc. Cultural Psychology, University of Amsterdam
• 2012 - 2016: B.A. Psychology and English Literature, Trinity College Dublin

Publications and Preprints

Nickl, P.*, Sultan, M.* (shared first-author), Stinson, C., Stock, F., Hertwig, R., & Kozyreva, A. (2026). Global crisis or overblown problem? Three tools to clarify contentious issues in misinformation research. PsyArXiv. (link)

Sultan, M., Gradassi, A., Slagter, S., Wouter, V. D. B., Kurvers, R., & Molleman, L. (2026). Ingroup bias in social information search and use. PsyArXiv. (link)

Claassen, M., Fuławka, K., Sultan, M., Kozyreva, A., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Heuristics for healthier food selection. PsyArXiv. (link) 

Ma, I., Sultan, M., Kozyreva, A., & Van Den Bos, W. (2025). Understanding the impact of misinformation on adolescents. Nature Human Behaviour, 10(1), 18–28. (link) 

Gollwitzer, A., Tump, A. N., Martel, C., Deffner, D., Sultan, M., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Toward a mechanistic understanding of false news sharing: Which interventions work best, for whom, and why. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 155(6), 1550–1574. (link)

Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Ehmann, N., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Gollwitzer, A., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024b). Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis of demographic and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(47). (link)

Sultan, M., Scholz, C., & van den Bos, W. (2023). Leaving traces behind: Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent wellbeing. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 100281. (link)

Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Geers, M., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2022). Time pressure reduces misinformation discrimination ability but does not alter response bias. Scientific Reports, 12(1). (link)

Roozenbeek, J., Maertens, R., Herzog, S.M., Geers, M., Kurvers, R.H.J.M., Sultan, M., & van der Linden, S. (2022). Susceptibility to misinformation is consistent across question framings and response modes and better explained by myside bias and partisanship than analytical thinking. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(3), 547–573. (link)