Bradley Walker

Bradley Walker is a Researcher in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia. He holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD in psychological science from the same institution. His primary research focuses on cultural evolution, particularly how individual psychological processes influence group-level behavior, with applications to language origin and social dynamics. He develops interactive web-based experiments to study these phenomena.

Research Interests: Bradley's work explores cultural evolution mechanisms, social influence dynamics, and the emergence of language through gesture-first theories. He investigates how misinformation spreads and persists, leveraging experimental methods to understand cognitive biases and social media behaviors.

Recent Projects: He collaborates on a grant examining large language models' role in disinformation detection. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to promoting just societies and responsible consumption.

Grants: Co-Principal Investigator on the project 'The role of large language models in the detection and mitigation of disinformation narratives' (2024-2025), funded by The University of Western Australia.

Labs/Teams: Active in UWA's cultural evolution research group, developing experimental platforms like The (Mis) Information Game to simulate social media environments.