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
Geers, M., Swire-Thompson, B., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S.M., Kozyreva, A., & Hertwig, R. The online misinformation engagement framework. Invited submission for Current Opinion in Psychology.
Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S., Ecker, U., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., ..., Geers, M., ..., & Wineburg, S. Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulation. R&R at Nature Human Behaviour.
Geers, M., Fischer, H., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog, S.M. The political (a)symmetry of metacognitive insight into detecting misinformation. Under review at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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.