Victoria Johnson

🎓 It's official - I've successfully defended my dissertation!

Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey. Looking forward to my next chapter as a postdoc at the University of Miami!

Going to #psynom24? Check out great work from our lab on misinformation, discourse and memory processes, and code comprehension! @kendeou.bsky.social @hwangphd.bsky.social

➡️ Beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing that promote trust in scientific sources might protect against climate change denial
➡️ Building these beliefs and the skills to evaluate information sources could help combat climate change denial

<em>Journal of Research in Science Teaching</em> | NARST Science Education Journal | Wiley Online Library A crucial hurdle to addressing climate change is science denial. While research suggests that science denial is related to judgments individuals make about the credibility of information sources, les....

🚨Out in JRST 🚨
What determines belief and trust in climate change information? In a new paper with @kendeou.bsky.social, Rina Harsch, and Reese Butterfuss, we examine the role of political ideology, epistemic beliefs, and source political leaning.👇
doi.org/10.1002/tea....

Excited to share all of the work coming from the Reading + Learning Lab at #TextDiscourse2024 this week! @kendeou.bsky.social @yewonkang.bsky.social @mpagkratidou.bsky.social

➡️ source judgements can be revised
➡️ refutations from sources later revealed to be high credibility –even if they were initially low credibility– can facilitate knowledge revision

🚨Out in Memory & Cognition 🚨
How malleable are source credibility evaluations? In a new paper with @kendeou.bsky.social and Reese Butterfuss, we find that these judgements are malleable, and have implications for revision. Read more below 👇
rdcu.be/dHvsA

➡️ source judgements can be revised
➡️ refutations from sources later revealed to be high credibility –even if they were initially low credibility– can facilitate knowledge revision

@vkjohnson.bsky.social and I proposed that misinformation in education manifests at the individual, community, and system levels; thus corrective approaches need to adapt at those levels. Read all about it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iA6B,rU%7...

Going to #psynom2023 later this week? Check out great work from our lab on misinformation, discourse and memory processes, and code comprehension! @mpagkratidou.bsky.social @vkjohnson.bsky.social @yewonkang.bsky.social