Dr Michael Biddlestone

Mikey Biddlestone, now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL, was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. His primary research focus includes the social factors associated with conspiracy beliefs, developing misinformation interventions, and investigating psychological reactions to everyday politics. He has published empirical work on conspiracy beliefs in the COVID-19 pandemic, led a number of theoretical reviews detailing the social processes involved in conspiracy beliefs, and helped to develop a misinformation checklist with the Doublethink Lab in Taiwan. His doctoral dissertation (University of Kent, 2021) focused on the predictors and conspiratorial implications of narcissistic ingroup identification.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=k2uKixgAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikey-Biddlestone