Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2016, the Oxford English Dictionary made ‘post-truth’ its word of the year, signaling a turn in Western politics towards ...

Sander van der Linden is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Author of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects our Minds and How to Build Immunity (WW Norton, 2023). Too often, we ...

Well, actually, there’s something pretty specific we may be able to do: Make a lie vaccine. Sander van der Linden is an assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Cambridge whose ...

Author Sander van der Linden explains why our brains are so vulnerable to misinformation, how it spreads across social networks, and what we can do to protect ourselves and others. FOOLPROOF: Why ...

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In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.

Sander van der Linden consults for or receives funding from the UK Government's Cabinet Office, The U.S. State Department, the American Psychological Association, the US Center for Disease Control, ...

Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is a Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Go Viral helps the average internet dweller understand the basics of how misinformation is made—which can help prevent people from believing falsities on social media. Meet 4 design heroes who are ...