Geers, Michael

• Since 2024 - Assistant Professor of Marketing, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin
• 2024 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
• 2024 - Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development & HU Berlin
• 2019 - Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• 2018 - M.Sc. in Marketing (with Distinction), Trinity College Dublin
• 2017 - B.A. in Business Administration, Provadis School of International Management and Technology

Publications

Straub, V. J., Burton, J. W., Geers, M., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2024). Public attitudes towards social media field experiments. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26110.

Geers, M., Fischer, H., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog, S.M. (2024). The political (a)symmetry of metacognitive insight into detecting misinformation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(8), 1961–1972.

Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S.M., Ecker, U.K.H., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., Ayesha, A., Bak-Coleman, J., Barzilai, S., Basol M., Berinsky, A.J., Betsch, C., Cook, J., Fazio, L.K., Geers, M., Guess, A.M., Huang, H., Larreguy, H., Maertens, R., Panizza, F., Pennycook, G., Rand, D., Rathje, S., Reifler, J., Schmid, P., Smith, M., Swire-Thomson, B., Szewach, P., van der Linden, S., & Wineburg, S. (2024). Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1044-1052.

Geers, M., Swire-Thompson, B., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S.M., Kozyreva, A., & Hertwig, R. (2024). The Online Misinformation Engagement Framework. Current Opinion in Psychology, 55, 101739.

Geers, M. (2023). Linking lab and field research. Nature Reviews Psychology.

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

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.

Lorenz-Spreen, P., Geers, M., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog, S.M. (2021). Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.