Myrto is a social psychologist with a background in linguistics. Her research broadly concerns how beliefs and attitudes are formed and shaped from a socio-cognitive perspective. In 2017 she obtained a Phd from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her dissertation examined the Truth-bias, the intrinsic tendency people have to believe things they are told (click here if you want to find out how truth-biased you are http://cescup.ulb.be/JudgeStephen/). After obtaining her PhD she moved to the University of Cambridge working on a project assessing the effect of sustainability information on investment decisions, a partnership between the Department of Psychology, Judge Business School and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Myrto is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, assessing the psycho-cognitive underpinnings of the truth-bias and studying Conspiracy Beliefs.
