1. Stephan Lewandowsky was born on 3 June 1958 and is an Australian psychologist.
14 Facts About Stephan Lewandowsky
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Stephan Lewandowsky has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of Psychological Science.
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Stephan Lewandowsky served as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma from 1990 to 1994, and as associate professor for one year after that.
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Stephan Lewandowsky remained there until April 2013, when he joined the University of Bristol.
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In 2015, Stephan Lewandowsky was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Stephan Lewandowsky has published a number of studies examining people's belief in misinformation.
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Stephan Lewandowsky told the Wall Street Journal that the original misinformation already had become a part of the Americans' mental worldview by the time it was retracted.
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Stephan Lewandowsky found a considerable amount of speculation but little concrete research into the area.
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In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky put forward what would later become one of his best-known studies regarding public opinion on climate change.
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Stephan Lewandowsky approached five climate sceptic blogs to ask them to post the questionnaire, but they all declined to do so.
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Later in 2013, Stephan Lewandowsky published another paper on a similar topic in Nature Climate Change.
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On 28 March 2013, Stephan Lewandowsky published "Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation" in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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Stephan Lewandowsky said that there had been a legally binding agreement on the original notice, and what he took "exception to is their latest statement, which is incompatible with the signed agreement and complete news to us".
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In May 2014, Stephan Lewandowsky published a two-part study on the relationship between uncertainty and the dangers of climate change, in which he argued that policymakers who argue that the scientific understanding of climate change is too uncertain to act are mistaken.