Dr. Alice Liefgreen is an experimental psychologist with an Honorary Appointment at Swansea University's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is currently working on the UKRI-funded TRUE project (2022-2027) with Professor Yvonne McDermott-Rees, which examines the impact of deepfakes on trust in user-generated evidence in accountability processes for human rights violations. Dr. Liefgreen earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology from University College London (UCL) in February 2022. Her doctoral research presented a descriptive framework of how people acquire, evaluate, and integrate information under uncertainty, outlining the psychological mechanisms that underpin these sense-making processes. Prior to her PhD, she completed an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL (2015-2016) and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Bath (2011-2015). Her research focuses on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty, with particular emphasis on causal and evidential reasoning. She investigates how people reason by comparing their inferences against normative causal Bayesian models while also considering factors that lead to deviations from these models, such as heuristics and alternative strategies. Her work spans multiple domains including legal-investigative contexts, impact-based weather forecasting, and intelligence analysis, using both constrained laboratory tasks and naturalistic studies to develop practical solutions for practitioners. Dr. Liefgreen's publication record demonstrates consistent exploration of reasoning under uncertainty across cognitive psychology, legal contexts, and decision science. Her work reveals patterns in how people evaluate competing explanations, process motive information in legal contexts, and select information strategically when faced with uncertainty. She has received significant research funding through the TRUE project, originally awarded as an ERC Starting Grant (no. 101040463) and now funded by a UKRI Frontier Research guarantee grant. Dr. Liefgreen is available for postgraduate supervision at Swansea University and maintains an active research role as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Causal Cognition Lab in UCL's Department of Experimental Psychology. Her previous positions include Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and University of Reading (January-June 2022) and at UCL's Department of Experimental Psychology (September 2021-April 2022).
