Briony Swire-Thompson is a cognitive psychologist and director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab. She is also affiliated with Northeastern University’s Political Science Department and the Network Science Institute. Her research investigates what drives belief in inaccurate information, why people refrain from belief change in the face of good corrective evidence, and how corrections can be designed to maximize impact. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was at the University of Western Australia’s Cognitive Science Laboratories and a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently funded by the National Cancer Institute to study cancer misinformation.