Geers, Michael

Predoctoral Fellow

Main Focus

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Computational Social Science
  • Psychology of Technology

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2020 - Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  • 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 and Working Papers

Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S., Ecker, U., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., ..., Geers, M., ..., & Wineburg, S. Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulationPsyArXiv.

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 biasScientific 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 thinkingJudgment 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 advertisingScientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.

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