Upcoming events:

17 December 2024, time: 4:45 PM CET: online seminar Why People Believe Misinformation – and What We Can Do About It

Live Streaming on YouTube – scan the QR code in the image in the top on this site or follow the link: >>> 

We are excited to welcome Dr. Jon Roozenbeek, Lecturer in Psychology and Security from King’s College London, who will discuss the psychology behind misinformation and how we can counteract it.

Seminar is part of the #Webimmunization project, funded by the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 in collaboration with the National Science Centre (NCN). Join us to learn more about this critical topic!

Past events:

• 16 November 2023 – Conference promoting the Basic Research Programme carried out under the EEA and Norway Grants.
• 5 June 2023 – Dr Paweł Gwiaździński recently appeared in the 3rd episode of the Radykalny Podcast, where he talked about our research on misinformation. 
• 31 March – 3 April 2023 – Prof. dr hab. Rafał Ryguła, gave a lecture entitled: “Who Believes in Fake News? A New and Holistic Approach to Understanding Susceptibility to (Mis)information as a Psycho-cognitive Phenotype” at The 13th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
• 16 February 2023 – online seminar – “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”, Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky
• 15 – 17 February 2023 – project team meeting in Poznan (Poland)
• 9 December 2022 – Dr. Jan Piasecki’s lecture on “Misinformation online” in the framework of the closing event of the “Treasures of Generations” project, Association Nowe Przestrzenie (Polish language)
• 16 November 2022 – Poster presented at the Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting “Neuroscience 2022” held in San Diego, USA: “Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Cognitive processes, personality traits and information features influencing susceptibility to fake news” M. Piksa , K. Noworyta , J. Piasecki , P. Gwiaździński, A. Gundersen , J. Kunst , M. Morzy, R. Rygula. 
• 10-13 November 2022 – the preliminary results of the research on graph embedding algorithms have been published and presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM): Wójtowicz, T (2022) Universal Graph Embedding Fine Tuning with Dirichlet Energy Smoothing.
• 19 October 2022 – Presentation of dr hab. Rafał Ryguła: “Who believes in fake news? Cognitive mechanisms and personality characteristics associated with different types of (mis)information susceptibility phenotypes” (Polish language)
• 9-13 July 2022 – Poster presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2022 in Paris: “Cognitive Processes And Personality Traits Associated With Phenotypes Of Susceptibility To (Mis)Information” R. Rygula , K. Noworyta , M. Piksa , J. Piasecki , J. Kunst , A. Gundersen, P. Gwiazdzinski. Book of abstracts (page 4122): https://kenesvm.azureedge.net/public/general/FENS2022.pdf
• 6 July 2022 –  Team meeting in Oslo and midterm seminar: Dr Jon Roozenbeek “How to counter misinformation using psychology”
• 26 April 2022 – Study visit from the National Science Centre (NCN)
• 22-23 April 2022 – Homo Informaticus 8.0 conference
• 27-29 October 2021 – First in-person meeting of the #Webimmunization project team members
• 30 August 2021 – Presentation entitled “Be Careful Who You Follow: the Impact of the Initial Set of Friends on COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets” at the 2021 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS 2021), 30 August 2021, virtual event, Ireland. The result of the participation was publication of a scientific article.  
• 29 April 2021 – Twitter Research Ethics Online Seminar
• 1 December 2020 – Online conference entitled “#Webimmunization. How can online social networks create collective resilience against misinformation?”