Main Focus

  • Psychology of Misinformation (Fake News)
  • Social Media
  • (Online) Decision Making
  • Computational Modelling
  • Social Information Search and Use

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2021 - Present: Predoctoral Fellow (PhD), 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 LiteratureTrinity College Dublin


Publications and Preprints

Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Geers, M., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., & Kurvers, R. (2022). Time Pressure Reduces Misinformation Discrimination Ability But Not Response Bias. PsyArXiv. (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)

Molleman, L., Gradassi, A., Sultan, M., & van den Bos, W. (2021). Partisan Biases in Social Information Use. PsyArXiv. (link)

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