Yara Kyrychenko

Yara Kyrychenko is a psychologist at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, with a background in mathematics and psychology from New York University and a PhD in Psychology from Cambridge. Kyrychenko's research focuses on misinformation susceptibility, the psychological mechanisms underlying social media engagement and polarization, and the emerging risks posed by artificial intelligence systems to democratic processes and information integrity. Notable contributions include the development of the Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST), a psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment, as well as investigations into how language models exhibit social identity biases and how malicious AI systems might threaten democratic institutions. Kyrychenko's work integrates intervention science and behavioral approaches to address challenges in misinformation resilience and artificial intelligence alignment.