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Lab Wins Vice-Chancellor's Research Impact Award

27 April 2025

Prof van der Linden and the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab have been awarded the University of Cambridge's Vice-Chancellor Award for Research Impact 2024. "Professor Sander van der Linden and team have developed a novel approach to countering the spread of harmful misinformation. This ‘psychological vaccine’ resulted...

Lab Wins Falling Walls Award in the Social Sciences

4 September 2024

The Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab has won the 2024 Falling Walls Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities category, in recognition of our research on propaganda, misinformation, polarisation, and their offshoots. Read the interview about the project and the award here: https://falling-walls.com/jon-roozenbeeks-...

Prof van der Linden on CBS 60 Minutes

25 March 2024

Prof van der Linden was interviewed by Lesley Stahl on CBS 60 Minutes about his research on misinformation and inoculation.

Congratulations to Jon Roozenbeek and Steve Rathje for becoming APS Rising Stars 2024

6 February 2024

Congratulations to our lab member Jon Roozenbeek and our lab alum Steve Rathje on being recognized as APS Rising Stars this year for their innovative contributions to psychology and beyond!

Bad News at the Nobel Prize Summit 2023

17 June 2023

Bad News was on full display for Nobel Laureates at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit in Washington D.C! bn_nobel2.jpg

FOOLPROOF BBC's Most Anticipated Books of 2023

2 January 2023

We're super excited that FOOLPROOF has been listed as one of BBC 's, Cosmopolitan , and Next Big Idea's most anticipated non-fiction books of 2023! Get your copy here or read this in-depth feature profile as well as starred reviews in The Observer, Kirkus , and Publishers Weekly. foolrpoof_web.webp

Lab research featured in New York Times

24 August 2022

In collaboration with Google, our latest study in Science Advances with six pre-registered experiments and a large field study on YouTube showed how inoculation can be scaled across millions on social media. Read the New York Times article about our work.

Congratulations to Melisa Basol (30 under 30) and Rakoen Maertens (CSAR Award)

13 June 2022

The lab couldn't be prouder of final-year PhD candidates Melisa Basol, who was inducted into the infamous Forbes 30 under 30 list and Rakoen Maertens for winning the competitive Cambridge Society for the Application of Research award! Well done!

Prof van der Linden @ Royal Television Society

9 October 2021

Prof van der Linden appeared at the Royal Television Society and joined a panel with BBC's disinformation reporter Marianna Spring, Sky New's Matthew Price and moderator Naga Munchetty (BBC World) to talk about the Psychology of Fake News.

Prof van der Linden and Dr Jon Roozenbeek in conversation with Prof Noam Chomsky

26 September 2021

Prof van der Linden and Dr Jon Roozenbeek interview Prof Noam Chomsky on the topic of climate change, misinformation, and what to do about it. The panel was hosted by Scientists for Future and the whole session can be viewed here