TRUE Researchers Attend SARMAC 2025

TRUE team members Maryanne Brassil (Postdoctoral Researcher), Helen Qiao (Research Assistant), and Ruben Lamers-James (PhD student) recently presented their research at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC XV), held in Co. Kildare, Ireland, from 11–15 June 2025.

Maryanne spoke in the Consequences of Misinformation Exposure session. Her talk, The Liar’s Dividend: Investigating the Impact of Deepfake Claims on Trust in User-Generated Evidence, shared findings from recent experiments exploring how judicial warnings and expert verification affect the perceived credibility of user-generated evidence.

Helen presented a paper from her PhD research at University College London in the Judgement, Reasoning and Decision-Making session. Her talk, Speak Last and Step-by-Step: The Effect of Order and Response Mode on Evidence Evaluation, examined how the order of prosecution and defence evidence interacts with response mode to influence guilt judgments and verdicts.

Ruben presented a poster based on his latest PhD work, titled Impact of Feedback Interventions on Human Deepfake Detection and Confidence Calibration. His research tested several interventions aimed at improving confidence-accuracy calibration when detecting deepfakes.

All three had a brilliant time at the conference: connecting with fellow researchers, exchanging ideas, and receiving thoughtful and encouraging feedback on their work!