Yara Kyrychenko

Yara Kyrychenko is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where Kyrychenko also completed undergraduate study before earning a Bachelor of Arts with honours in Mathematics and Psychology from New York University in 2022. Kyrychenko's research centers on misinformation susceptibility and resilience, including the development of psychometric tools to measure news veracity discernment and the evaluation of interventions designed to reduce susceptibility to false information. Additional work addresses the implications of large language models and agentic AI for information warfare, social identity biases in generative systems, and the psychology of social media engagement during political crises.