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Lab in New York Times: Communicating Climate Change

13 May 2019

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...

SDM Lab Convenes Special Cambridge Interest Group (SIG) in Disinformation and Media Literacy

15 February 2019

Special Interest Group in Disinformation and Media Literacy The 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...

Lab in Washington Post: Moral Judgments about Sexual Harassment

14 December 2018

In new research on sexual harassment Sander van der Linden and Costas Panagopoulos look at moral judgments about the Weinstein & O'Reilly cases, revealing large ideological asymmetries. This is an article from The Washington Post. Liberals and conservatives see sexual harassment claims very differently. This explains...

Melisa Basol on Gates Cambridge: Inoculating Against Fake News

6 December 2018

This is a Gates Cambridge article. The original article can be found on https://www.gatescambridge.org/news/inoculating-people-against-fake-news Inoculating people against fake news Melisa Basol's research investigates how to counter the misinformation spread in fake news about immigrants. Wed 05 Dec 2018 "Fake news is...

Lab Receives WhatsApp Misinformation Research Award

13 November 2018

The Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab has received the prestigious WhatsApp Research Award for Social Science and Misinformation from WhatsApp (Facebook). We are honoured to receive this award and look forward to partnering with the WhatsApp Research Team to tackle the spread of misinformation in society. Official...

Fake News Game "Bad News" Receives Multiple Award Nominations

19 September 2018

It's been a good month for the Fake News Game: Bad News . First, we received an honorable mention in Fast Company's 2018 Innovation by Design Awards, with illustrious judges from Google, HBO, MIT, and Nike to Planned Parenthood, we are honored to have been included! On top of that, Jon Roozenbeek and the design team (the...

Yawning at the Apocalypse

8 August 2018

In a front cover feature of the September issue of the British Psychological Society Journal, THE PSYCHOLOGIST ( September 2018), Dr. Cameron Brick and Dr. Sander van der Linden AFBPsS talk about the Psychology of Climate Change and how psychologists of all stripes can make a difference. They expose the psychological...

Dr. van der Linden launches Global Values Calculator with BBC Tomorrow's World

6 June 2018

BBC Tomorrow's World Global Values Quiz: Where Do You Fit? was created in collaboration with Dr Sander Van Der Linden at the University of Cambridge. Read More --> The test combines established psychological scales to help people determine their unique value profile, compare these values to the UK and EU average and...

Melisa Basol wins Gates Scholarship

26 April 2018

The lab is extremely proud to announce that MPhil' 17 student Melisa Basol has been admitted to the PhD program in Psychology and has been awarded the prestigious Gates Scholarship , which is awarded to "intellectually outstanding postgraduate students with a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives...

The Fake News Game & Lab's Contribution to Parliamentary Inquiry

20 February 2018

Dr. van der Linden and Jon Roozenbeek (in collaboration with DROG ) have released "The Fake News Game" ( www.fakenewsgame.org ) worldwide today in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. The game lets players step into the shoes of a fake news producer. Players earn bad badges along the way to master the techniques...