He is a cognitive psychologist in the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where he is also part of the university’s Cabot Institute. Until 2013, he was at the University of Western Australia. He has published a number of notable studies examining people’s beliefs in misinformation, including one of the best-known studies of public opinion about climate change, advancing the literature on what has come to be known as “motivated reasoning.” He has also studied the relationship between believing conspiracy theories and rejection of various forms of science. He is the first digital content editor for the Psychonomic Society, running its blog at http://www. psychonomic.org/featured-content.