Karly was a Gates scholar and received her BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and a MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. During the MPhil, she examined the differential relationships between domains of gender typicality and...
John completed a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication and the Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at...
Melisa was a Gates Scholar and PhD Candidate in Psychology. At the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, her research focused on attitudes,...
Steve Rathje finished his PhD in Psychology at Trinity College, Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Steve studied misinformation and political polarization on social media using computational and experimental methods. He then continued his research as a postdoctoral researcher...
Anne Marthe van der Bles is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen where she received her PhD in social psychology in 2017. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab and Winton Centre for...
Fatih Uenal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Consumer Decision & Sustainable Behavior Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-...
Patrick McClanahan was a PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Cambridge examining how individual traits and situational factors predict criminal decision-making. Originally from the United States (Roanoke College ’15 - Magna Cum Laude) his background is in Psychology and...
Kayla Pincus received her MPhil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge (2020) and a BA in Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College studying how social issues are marketed. Her research at Cambridge focused on using storytelling to...
Cameron is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication...
Dr Izzidien was a visiting research associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. He completed a BEng(Hons) in computation (King’s College London) and an MSc and PhD in digital technology. He then began an interdisciplinary research training course completing an MA and MPhil (University...
Ondřej graduated from Cambridge with an MPhil in Psychology (2019) and currently works as a Behavioural Scientist at The Behaviouralist. His research work focuses on how social norms and morality affect cooperation in real-world social dilemmas, such as...
Anandita (Ana) graduated with an MPhil in Psychology from Cambridge in 2019. Originally from India, Ana graduated with a BA in Psychology (magna cum laude) from Yale-NUS College, Singapore. Her MPhil thesis explored the "Greta Effect" or how exposure to Greta Thunberg shapes collective...
Christel van Eck was a visiting PhD Candidate from the Strategic Communication Group at Wageningen University & Research, funded by the Dutch Research Council’s Research Talent Scholarship. Her PhD research focuses on polarisation in...
Kayleigh Dawson completed her MPhil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge where she also received a first-class degree in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS) from Jesus College. Kayleigh's dissertation explored the wisdom of the crowd in social norms and how norms help to...
Danielle is a BA student at the University of Miami double majoring in Psychology and Studio Art with minors in Ecosystem Science & Policy, Philosophy, English Literature, and Management. As a visiting research student at Cambridge and with support from the UM Academic Enhancement...
Vivien was a visiting student at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. She completed a MSc at the Free University of Berlin and was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Both her research experience and prior work in management consulting sparked her...
Helena de Boer was a visiting dissertation MSc student (she graduated cum laude). At Cambridge, her research focused on perceptions of in-and out-group climate change ambassadors to help motivate people to adopt sustainable lifestyles. Before her MSc in Social Psychology...
Amos Fong graduated with a degree in PBS from St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He is interested in online echo chambers, and works with Twitter data to examine language differences among communities holding contrasting views. When he isn’t studying online social...
Elif completed her MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Although her recent work was in developmental psychology, Elif is interested in the intersection of policy- and decision-making, especially wanting to explore how choice architecture can help...
Charley Lenton-Lyons was a visiting research intern. He has a Bachelor’s in Zoology from Royal Holloway University and was a Research Intern at James Cook University in Australia. Charley combines his background in the biological sciences with that of social psychology to...
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...
Barbara was a project coordinator at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Currently, she is working on IRIS Academic Research Group project supporting experts in developing a set of solutions, insights, best-...
Now a Computational Behavioural Scientist at Yonder, James was an undergraduate research assistant reading Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge. He is interested in a wide range of social psychological topics from social influence to geographic variations of cultural values, and...
Flavio Azevedo is a political psychologist, Fulbright fellow, and Assistant Professor of Political Psychology at University of Groningen. He was a postdoc at Cambridge's Social Decision-Making Lab. His research focuses on ideology, how to measure it, and its role in political behavior and in...
Dongwon Lee is a full professor and director of graduate program in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (a.k.a. iSchool) at Penn State University, USA, and also an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar. Before starting at Penn State, he has worked at AT...
Gundersen was a visiting PhD student from the Culture, Society & Behavior lab at the University of Oslo. His PhD research focuses on psychological processes related to misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. During his visit at Cambridge, Gundersen’s research will look at the consumption and...
Carolin was a visiting PhD researcher at the Social Decision-Making Lab. Usually based at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, her research focuses on disinformation interventions, ideological bias and metacognitive bias awareness. For more information visit ...
Hannah was a visiting scholar from Stockholm University. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Greifswald with stays at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, which she concluded with a thesis on an extension and adaptation of the Gateway...
Haiyan Wang is a PhD candidate from Department of Experimental and Applied psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on conspiracy beliefs and extremism. She also works at Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, cluster of extremism and terrorism...
Grit Zwingenberger was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, researching the influence of social norms on high impact environmental behaviours within organisations across multiple regions.
As a Sustainability Consultant in a large professional services company, she is committed to...