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Published
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Retrieval fluency inflates perceived preparation for difficult problems (in press) Memory
Do conspiracy theorists think too much or too little? (2023) Current Opinion in Psychology
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction (2022) Nature Reviews Psychology
Linking creativity and false memory: Common consequences of a flexible memory system (2021) Cognition
Timing matters when correcting fake news (2021) PNAS
Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data (2020) The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Aging in an era of fake news (2020) Current Directions in Psychological Science
An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth (2020) Cognition
Judging truth (2020) Annual Review of Psychology
Knowledge supports memory retrieval through familiarity, not recollection (2018) Neuropsychologia
Neural basis of goal-driven shifts in access to knowledge (2018) European Journal of Neuroscience
Magical thinking decreases across adulthood (2017) Psychology and Aging
Competing cues: Older adults rely on knowledge in the face of fluency (2017) Psychology and Aging
Believing that humans swallow spiders in their sleep: False beliefs as side effects of the processes that support accurate knowledge (2016) Psychology of Learning and Motivation
On known unknowns: Fluency and the neural mechanisms of the illusory truth effect (2016) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth (2015) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Memory meets control in hippocampal and striatal binding of stimuli, responses, and attentional control states (2015) The Journal of Neuroscience
Under Review
Brashier, N. M., & Rand, D. G. (preprint). Illusory truth occurs even with incentives for accuracy
*covered by CBS News and the Nieman Lab
Brashier, N. M. (invited). Fighting fake news across the adult lifespan. Current Opinion in Psychology
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