Sander van der Linden

I am a Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Social Decision-Making Lab at the University of Cambridge.

I study the influence process, so I study how people are persuaded by information, and especially misinformation, and how we can help people resist persuasion when they don’t want to be persuaded. As part of that I’ve written a book, The Truth Vaccine: An Antidote to Fake News, where we break down the influence process.

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Publications

van der Linden, S., Panagopoulos, C., & Roozenbeek, J. (2020). You Are Fake News: Political Bias in Perceptions of Fake News. Media, Culture & Society, 42(3), 460-470.
Roozenbeek, J., Schneider, C.R., van der Linden, S., et al. (2020). Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 1–15.
Blastland, M., Freeman, A.L.J., van der Linden, S., Marteau, T.M., & Spiegelhalter, D. (2020). Five rules for evidence communication. Nature, 587, 362–364.
van der Linden, S., & Löfstedt, R.E. (Eds.). (2019). Risk and Uncertainty in a Post-Truth Society. Routledge.
Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2019). Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation. Palgrave Communications, 5(65).
van der Linden, S., Leiserowitz, A., Rosenthal, S., et al. (2017). Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change. Global Challenges, 1(2).

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