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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 why.By Costas Panagopoulos and Sa…

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

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 Announcementhttps://www.whatsapp.…

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 real geniuses) have created a…

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 challenges of how the human brain…

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 gives people a short glimpse of th…

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 of others." We look forward…

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 (e.g. polarization, conspira…

Dr. van der Linden rejoined BBC Cambridge this week to chat with the Naked Scientists about human altruism. You can listen to or read more about the interview here: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/altruism-humans-what-makes-us-specialAltruism in humans - what makes us special? Dr. van der Linden also recently appeared on Soci…

Dr. van der Linden is honored to be named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science (APS). The APS designation is given to outstanding early-career psychological scientists who have already influenced the field in meaningful and important ways through their research.The full list of APS Rising Stars 2017 can be found here:APS Ris…

Dr. van der Linden was interviewed recently by BBC World Service: "The Why Factor" to talk about the psychology of crowds and how crowds form online and how they empower people collectively.You can listen here to the radio segment.Full episode below Relatedly, Dr. van der Linden was back on with the Naked Scientists at BBC Cambridge to talk about t…

Philipp Jabold, SDP MPhil 17-18, has won support from the Boak Fund at Clare Hall.Philipp will be using the award towards his research on modeling implicit and explicit stereotype development in response to slanted crime news reporting about immigrants.The Boak Student Support Fund provides support for students of Clare Hall to pursue outstanding r…

We published a letter in Science Magazine today about the importance of inoculating against misinformation and the need for more research on this topic: Read the full story here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6367/1141.2

Nature Outlook released a special this week on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and the viral success of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The article discusses our 2017 Nature Human Behaviour article on the psychology of viral altruism.Read more here: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676_supp_out/full/550S113a.html 

Panellists included Deborah Cohen (BBC Radio Science Editor), Silvia Bencivelli (Italian Journalist), Luca Mercalli (Climatologist), and Pier Giuseppe Pelicci (Prof of Oncology) - moderated by Andrea Bettini (Rai).