Nicole Antes

Nicole Antes is a Researcher and PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM) in Tübingen, Germany, working in the Perception and Action lab and the Realistic Depictions lab since December 2021. She is affiliated with the University of Tübingen and has established herself as a promising researcher in cognitive psychology with focus on misinformation processing and memory mechanisms.

Education:

• M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen (2021)
• B.A. in Media and Business Psychology, HMKW Berlin

Antes' research centers on how people process and remember true versus false information, with particular emphasis on the cognitive mechanisms behind misinformation effects. Her work investigates how veracity cues (information about whether statements are true or false) affect memory accuracy and confidence judgments, how false information persists in memory even after correction (the Continued Influence Effect), and how social media platforms influence the spread and correction of misinformation. She examines how factors like information presentation order, modality differences, and content type impact the discrimination between true and false information in memory.

Her publication record reveals a sophisticated research program exploring the intersection of cognitive psychology and real-world misinformation challenges. The research demonstrates how temporal sequencing of information, cross-modal presentation formats, and content specificity all influence memory for veracity. Her work bridges foundational cognitive science with practical applications for developing effective misinformation correction strategies in digital environments.

Antes has taught an experimental psychology practical course at the University of Tübingen during the summer semester of 2024 and served as the PhD Representative at IWM from January to December 2024. She co-organized the 2025 workshop 'Combating Misinformation in the Digital Age: Cognitive Biases, Societal Challenges and Ethical Considerations' at the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media, bringing together researchers from psychology, political science, and ethics to address misinformation from interdisciplinary perspectives.

As a core member of both the Perception and Action lab and Realistic Depictions lab at IWM, Antes conducts controlled experimental research while maintaining relevance to real-world misinformation challenges. Her current project 'Mental representation of scenes: Discriminability of true and false information' (2021-2024) directly addresses how people mentally represent and distinguish between accurate and inaccurate information about events.