Jason L.G. Braasch

Jason L. G. Braasch is a cognitive psychologist and educator whose research examines how people evaluate sources and information while reading, particularly online, and how readers revise problematic knowledge and beliefs. He earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Poitiers in France and the University of Oslo in Norway, and has taught and conducted research at the University of Memphis and Georgia State University.

Braasch co-edited Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences (2014) and The Handbook of Multiple Source Use (2018). His work has appeared in research on misinformation, source evaluation, literacy, and learning, and he received the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences Early Career Impact Award and the University of Memphis Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018.