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Sander van der Linden, Ph.D.
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
*Winner of the 2023 Best Psychology Book Prize* (British Psychological Society)
*Winner of the 2024 Goldsmith Book Prize* (Harvard University)
"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.
'Fascinating' - The Observer
'Authoritative' - Financial Times
'Powerful' - Kirkus and Nature
'Riveting' - Waterstones
'Encouraging' - The Times
'Important' - Forbes
'Stand-out guide' - Publishers Weekly
'Must-Read' - Psychology Today
US
As seen on CBS 60 Minutes
One of Nature's BEST SCIENCE PICKS and TOP Books of 2023
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year 2023
A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 2023
Behavioral Scientist's Notable Behavioral Science Book of 2023.
Shepherd.com's "Best Books about Fake News".
Dice.com "Summer Book List 2023"
Public Health Sizzler - American Public Health Association
Insights featured at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit
"[Prebunking] is probably our best strategy for winning the misinformation wars". - The Washington Post
"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"
"A must-read for anyone who cares about misinformation, fake news, and discerning truth".
- David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect
Alex Winter Gale Anne Hurd
(Actor/Director) (Producer)
"If you are interested in being inoculated against disinformation, be sure to get this [terrific] book".
- Gale Anne Hurd, Producer, The Terminator, The Walking Dead, & The YouTube Effect
"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
"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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Publications
Research and Articles
How "prebunking" misinformation works
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The Vaccine for Fake News
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"FOOLPROOF: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity"
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