Lisa K. Fazio

Lisa K. Fazio is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. Fazio's research addresses how people learn, remember, and form beliefs, with particular attention to misinformation, the illusory truth effect, and how repetition influences perceived accuracy. Much of this work examines why false information persists even when people have prior knowledge to the contrary, and what interventions, such as fact-checking, retrieval practice, and pausing before sharing, can reduce misinformation belief and spread. Fazio has also published on children's numerical and fraction knowledge, memory for fictional information, and, more recently, intellectual humility as a factor in misinformation receptivity.