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Prof van der Linden is honoured to receive the British Psychological Association's President Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge.Each year the Presidents' Award honours a psychologist in mid to late career, currently engaged in research of outstanding quality that has made exceptional contributions to psychological know…

We are incredibly proud to announce that our own Yara Kyrychenko has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Women of the Future Award in the AI category!"For eighteen years, the awards have shone a light on trailblazing women"More about the award - congratulations Yara!https://awards.womenofthefuture.co.uk/our-alumni-category/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 in award winning public im…

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 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

The Economist TV team came down in July to film the lab and our research featured in the below documentary film on the role of fake news in democracy! Watch the documentary below:

In his address to the University of Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor, Stephen Toope, recognized the lab's research as one of the university's top three achievements of the last year, alongside stem cell research and the discovery of ghost galaxies. We are extremely honoured to be mentioned in the speech and could not do our research without strong suppor…

New article by The New York Times (@nytimes) on climate change communication science features Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab#inoculation research as promising new avenue. Scientific reporter Ben Ryan (@benryanwriter) covers important topics by Sander van der Linden (@Sander_vdLinden), Ed Maibach (@MaibachEd), Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe), and …

Special Interest Group in Disinformation and Media LiteracyThe Trust & Technology Initiative is forming a new SIG in Disinformation and Media Literacy convened by Rory Finnin (Slavonic Studies) and Sander van der Linden (Social Psychology). The Disinformation and Media Literacy SIG is a community of scholars and practitioners committed to exploring…