Technology, Democracy, and Cognition Group (TeDCog)

• Reclaiming individual autonomy and democratic discourse online
  We aim to develop cognitively and technologically sound solutions to restore people’s autonomy online.
• JitsuVAX
  We develop tools to train and assist healthcare professionals to confront vaccine-related misinformation.
• PRODEMINFO
  We examine how people’s differing conceptions of “truth” can be used to design interventions to protect democratic discourse.
• JIGSAW / Inoculation Science
  We use inoculation theory to develop scalable interventions to protect online consumers against misleading and false information.
• The Mercury Project
  We develop and test interventions to assist people in distinguishing between true and false information, and we equip practitioners with adaptable toolkits to help them reduce misinformation.
• SoMe4Dem
  We reconsider the diagnoses of democracy in crisis by examining the impact of social media on political debates and developing tools to improve their contribution to the functioning of the public arena in a liberal democracy.
• The Misinformation Future—Confronting Emerging Threats
  We aim to investigate the effect of misinformation on future-oriented cognition and behaviours, with a focus on global long-term issues, as well as to address the unique challenges posed by visual and synthetic (AI-generated) misinformation.

• The Honesty Project
  We identify factors that determine how people view honesty, and what we might do to make accuracy matter again.
• REPHRAIN
  We address fundamental tensions and imbalances pertaining to protecting citizens online. The REPHRAIN project remains ongoing but our input has been completed.