Dr. Lisa Fazio is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on how people learn true and false information from the world around them, and on how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. Her work informs basic theories about psychological processes, while also having clear applications for practitioners, such as journalists and teachers. She received her PhD from Duke University in 2010 and completed postdoctoral fellowships at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. In 2020 she received the Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences on behalf of the Psychonomic Society. Dr. Fazio is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.  Her research is currently supported by major grants from both NSF and the Social Science Research Council focusing on why people believe false information and testing the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing the spread of and belief in misinformation.

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Lisa K. Fazio
Psychology and Human Development
Vanderbilt University 
230 Appleton Place #552
Hobbs 315A
Nashville, TN 37203 USA

Phone: +1 615-875-8301

Email: lisa.fazio@vanderbilt.edu