Sacha Altay

Sacha Altay is an experimental psychologist working on misinformation, trust, and social media in the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. Through his research, he tries to understand why, despite people’s socio-cognitive abilities to resist misinformation, some false beliefs are widespread, and he tests novel communication techniques to inform people efficiently and correct common misperceptions about vaccines, GMOs, and nuclear energy. Altay completed his Ph.D. in cognitive science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.