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Dr. van der Linden has been listed as a global expert on debunking misinformation as part of an excellent new database featuring "post-truth" experts, an initiative from the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. 

Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Anne Marthe van der Bles writes about her important research on the development of a new psychological measure to capture the Zeitgeist of our time: Factor Z and the Psychology of Doom and Gloom.Read the full article at Scientific American Mind here: 

The UK Government recently launched a parliamentary investigation into the ways in which fake news may be undermining democracy.We were pleased to see that the UK Parliament's Office of Science and Technology (POST) Report on Fake News cites our inoculation research when discussing potential ways of addressing the issue. You can read the full repor…

Dr. van der Linden was invited to speak at TEDx Oxbridge about the status of "facts" and the psychology of "fake news".Why We Disagree about Facts

Dr. van der Linden is very pleased to join the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Research, an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA, Europe). 

 Dr. Sander van der Linden has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for prominent contributions to social change research. The RSA, founded in 1754 is a politically independent organisation which invites experts from a broad range of industries and fields to help find innovative and practical solutions to today's social challeng…

This week's key cover story in Science Magazine is on vaccine hesitancy and the "Science of Persuasion". In reviewing several recent promising studies on how to correct influential misperceptions about vaccine risks, Dr. van der Linden and colleagues' work in BMC Public Health is cited on how highlighting normative agreement among doctors about vac…

Churchill Fellow and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, Dr Sander van der Linden has collaborated with The Economist Educational Foundation to develop an online course for young people in UK primary and secondary schools to help teach them how to spot 'fake news.' The project hopes to teach young people how to spot fake news and …

 Prof. van der Linden and Dr Roozenbeek have been awarded the 2020 grand Frank Prize in Public Interest Communications from the University of Florida for their 2019 research paper on the fake news game. Jon Roozenbeek was in attendance to receive the award. The award is named after social change pioneer Frank Karel and recognizes outstanding contri…

 What makes some social causes go viral but not others? Online social media platforms now offer the ability to connect and mobilize millions of people to action on important societal issues. In our latest research, published in Nature Human Behaviour, we evaluate how people engage with a number of popular social causes, such as the ALS Ice Bucket C…

For a recent summary of our work, please refer to this BBC articleIn collaboration with our partners at Yale and George Mason University in the United States, the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab recently publisheda study in which we develop a "psychological vaccine" against misinformation. We were very pleased that the research received worldw…