Sander van der Linden, Ph.D.
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Professor, Author, and Speaker
Featured in the BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS of 2023 By Cosmopolitan, BBC, Apple, Inc.com, Men's Health, Financial Times, & Nature
One of Nature's BEST SCIENCE PICKS and TOP Books of 2023
Behavioral Scientist's Notable Behavioral Science Book of 2023.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year 2023
A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 2023
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​*​Winner of the 2024 SPSP Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (SPSP)
*Winner of the 2023 Best Psychology Book Prize* (British Psychological Society)
*Winner of the 2024 William James Book Award (American Psychological Association)
*Winner of the 2024 Harvard Shorenstein Goldsmith Book Prize* (Harvard University)
*Global Asssociation of Applied Behavioral Science Book Award* (Runner-Up)
*Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Book Award* (Silver)
"You will never look at your social media feeds in the same way again”
- Angela Saini, Author of the Patriarchs.
"I am so glad we now have this book. There's nothing else like it"
- Robert Cialdini, NYT Bestselling Author of Influence
"This brilliant book....provides a set of powerful evidence-based 'antigens' designed to protect us from false claims"
- Sir David Spiegehalter, Author
of The Art of Statistics.
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"[Prebunking] is probably our best strategy for winning the misinformation wars". - The Washington Post
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"A must-read for anyone who cares about misinformation, fake news, and discerning truth".- David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect
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"This is one of those books I could read even if my hair were on fire" - Lee McIyntire, author of Post-Truth and On Disinformation"
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"If you are interested in being inoculated against disinformation, be sure to get this [terrific] book". - Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer, The Terminator, The Walking Dead, & The YouTube Effect
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"His work suggests that the brain....can form a sort of habit of seeing the patterns in misinformation and recognising it as it arrives" - David Aaronovitch, The Times
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"Van der Linden has taken a highly creative approach to the problem of fake news and supported it with excellent research." - Skeptical Inquirer
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"Simple but brilliant idea.......if you want to know why people believe fake news... then this is the book to read." - The Skeptic.
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"Van der Linden has captured public imagination in a way few others haves" - Science Magazine
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'Fascinating' - The Observer
'Authoritative' - Financial Times
'Powerful' - Kirkus
'Riveting' - Waterstones
'Encouraging' - The Times
'Important' - Forbes
'Stand-out guide' - Publishers Weekly
'Must-Read' - Psychology Today
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CV
Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director, Cambridge Social Decison-Making Lab
Department of Psychology, School of Biology, University of Cambridge
September 2020 - present
Associate Professor of Psychology (tenured)
Department of Psychology, School of Biology, University of Cambridge
September 2019 - 2020
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology, School of Biology, University of Cambridge
September 2016 - 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Department of Psychology and School of Public Affairs, Princeton University
September 2014 - 2016
Visiting Research Scholar
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University
September 2012 - 2014