Kate Faasse

Kate Faasse is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, where she has been based since 2016. Faasse completed a PhD in Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in 2013. Her research addresses placebo and nocebo effects, health communication, and the psychological factors that shape symptom experience and medication beliefs. Faasse also works on misinformation, conspiracy theories, and epistemically suspect beliefs, examining how people reason about implausible claims and how content and framing influence health-related attitudes and behavior.