Panayiota Kendeou, associate professor in psychological foundations of education was recently featured in the article ‘How to debunk a scientific myth’ by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Foundation. The article discusses Kendeou’s research which combines reading, cognition, and neuroscience into the Knowledge Revision Components Framework (KReC). This framework explains how people read and incorporate new information to correct their inaccurate beliefs.

Kendeou told FABBS she developed KReC because “even though we knew a lot about the impact of misconceptions on memory and learning, we had very little understanding of the mechanisms behind them.”

A recent recipient of the FABBS Foundation’s Early Career Impact Award, Kendeou joined the Department of Educational Psychology in 2013 from the Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus. She is associate editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Studies of Reading, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Learning and Instruction, Discourse Processes, and Reading Psychology. She is also a member of the European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D), the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), and the Psychonomic Society.

The FABBS Foundation was established to enhance understanding of the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior. It was created in 2004 by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) to educate the public about the contributions of these sciences to the well-being of individuals and society.