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Sander van der Linden
van der Linden at TEDx Oxbridge 2017
NationalityNetherlands
Alma materLondon School of Economics and Political Science LSE Ph.D., 2014
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorAnthony Leiserowitz
Other academic advisors

Sander van der Linden, FRSA (born 8 March 1986), is a Dutch-born social psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge where he directs the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory.[1][2] He is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge[3], a researcher at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication at Yale University[4] and a psychologist at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.[5]

He is also a public speaker[6][7] and popular science writer[8][9] and his work is regularly quoted in outlets such as the New York Times[10][11], the BBC[12][13], NPR [14][15], Time Magazine [16], and the Washington Post[17]. He was awarded fellowship to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for having made prominent contributions to social change research[18] and previously nominated as one of the "30 Top Thinkers under 30" by Pacific Standard Magazine.[1]

van der Linden studies the psychology of social influence, risk, communication, judgment, and decision-making.[19] His research on the psychology of climate change has been described as "seminal".[20]


Education and Background

Van der Linden was born in Waalwijk the Netherlands, where he grew up to Jewish parents[2]. In a recent interview, van der Linden revealed that much of his family was executed during WW II, which inspired him to pursue his interest in the psychology of human behavior, cooperation, and decision-making[21]. He started his PhD at the the London School of Economics and Political Science, but soon moved to work on the psychology of risk with Anthony Leiserowitz at Yale University[20][1]. Leiserowitz was a doctoral student of Paul Slovic. In 2014, van der Linden moved to the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University to work with Eldar Shafir at the Kahneman Center for Behavioral Science.[22][19] At Princeton, van der Linden was a Fellow of Mathey College, alongside notable colleagues, including Susan Fiske.[23] Van der Linden joined the University of Cambridge in 2016[24].

Fake News Vaccine

Van der Linden achieved particular notariety[25] with a study[26] in which he and his co-authors developed what the media described as a "Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News".[27][28] The vaccine metaphor is based on a psychological concept known as inoculation theory. According to Altmetrics, the study was covered by about 100 news outlets around the world.[29] Van der Linden and colleagues have appeared on NPR's Science Friday to talk about the study[15] and BBC World News[30]. Van der Linden also appears in a number of TV documentaries[31] and in an initiative from The Economist to help teach young people how to spot fake news.[32] On the personal invitation of United Nation's Special Rapporteur David Kaye, van der Linden spoke at Wilton Park about the psychology of fake news.[33][34]

Notable Research and Theories

Van der Linden's work on the psychology of climate change has been influential and receives frequent attention in the media.[35][14][36] He is one of the main authors and proponents of a social-psychological theory of judgment and opinion formation known as the Gateway Belief Model (GBM). Other notable work by van der Linden includes the psychological factors that cause altruistic behaviors to go viral and the discovery that viral social movements such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge tend to have a short "half-life".[37][38][39] He also coined the Conspiracy effect [40][41], which describes public exposure to conspiracy theories as a social contagion.

Honors and Awards

Personal Views

Alongside Lawrence Krauss and other scholars, he was asked to comment on the 2017 US election by Research Gate, van der Linden described the Trump campaign as a classic approach to spreading "misinformation, fear, and prejudice".[45] Van der Linden is a noted critic of the cultural cognition thesis proposed by Dan Kahan.[46]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Sander van der Linden's Cambridge University Department Page". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Sander van der Linden at the Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Fellows of Churchill College". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Sander van der Linden's Profile at Yale University". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Sander van der Linden's Profile at Winton". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Public Lecture at Conway Hall Ethical Society". Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Why We Disagree About Facts". TEDx. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Sander van der Linden at Scientific American Mind". Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Sander van der Linden at Psychology Today". Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Why Misleading Americans about Climate Change is Dangerous". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  11. ^ "The Ice-Bucket Racket". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  12. ^ "Cambridge scientists consider fake news vaccine". BBC News. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  13. ^ "Could the Cumbria floods make us greener?". BBC All in the Mind. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  14. ^ a b "How Psychology can Save the World from Climate Change". NPR. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  15. ^ a b "Building an Immunity to Fake News". NPR Science Friday. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  16. ^ "Most Americans Think Their Opinion on Guns is Widely Shared". Time Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  17. ^ "Researchers Think They've Found a Gateway Belief that Leads to Greater Science Acceptance". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Van der Linden Elected Fellow of RSA". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  19. ^ a b "Sander van der Linden Biography at the Conversation". The Conversation. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  20. ^ a b "The works of Dr. van der Linden". Stirling Behavioural Science Blog. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  21. ^ "Seven Minutes in Heaven with a Scientist". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  22. ^ "Sander van der Linden's Princeton University Page". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  23. ^ "Mathey Fellows". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  24. ^ "Department Welcomes Dr. van der Linden". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  25. ^ "Cambridge Minds: Sander van der Linden". Cambridge 105 radio. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  26. ^ van der Linden, S.; Leiserowitz, A.; Rosenthal, S.; Maibach, E. (2017). "Inoculating the Public Against Misinformation about Climate Change". Global Challenges 1(2). doi:10.1002/gch2.201600008.
  27. ^ "Psychological Vaccine May Protect Against Fake News, Alternative Facts". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  28. ^ "It's Possible to Vaccinate Americans Against Fake News, Experiment Shows". LA Times. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  29. ^ "Altmetric Scores". Altmetric. Retrieved 22 May 2017..
  30. ^ "BBC World News". BBC. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  31. ^ "Kobra TV". SVT. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  32. ^ "How to Spot Fake News". The Economist. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  33. ^ "Fake News: Innocuous or Intolerable?". Cambridge University. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  34. ^ "Fake News: Innocuous or Intolerable? WP1542". Wilton Park. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  35. ^ van der Linden, S.; Maibach, E.; Leiserowitz, A. (2015). "How to Engage the Public With Climate Change: Five "Best Practice" Insights from Psychological Science". Perspectives on Psychological Science 10(6). doi:10.1002/gch2.201600008.
  36. ^ "Why We Don't Worry More about Climate Change". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  37. ^ van der Linden, S. (2017). "The Nature of Viral Altruism and How to Make it Stick". Nature Human Behaviour. doi:10.1038/s41562-016-0041.
  38. ^ "Fundraising Craze Driven by Narcissism". The Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  39. ^ "The Surprisingly Short Half-Life of Viral Social Movements". Scientific American. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  40. ^ van der Linden, Sander (2015). "The Conspiracy-Effect: Exposure to Conspiracy Theories (about Global Warming) Decrease Pro-Social Behavior and Science Acceptance". Personality and Individual Differences. 87: 171–173. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.07.045.
  41. ^ "What Do Conspiracy Theories Do To US". New York Magazine. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  42. ^ "Frank Research prize". Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  43. ^ "APA Honors Psychology's Best". APA. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  44. ^ "Best Paper Award". IAAP. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  45. ^ "Researchers React to the Election of Donald Trump". ResearchGate. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  46. ^ van der Linden, Sander (2016). "A Conceptual Critique of the Cultural Cognition Thesis". Science Communication. 38 (1): 128–138. doi:10.1177/1075547015614970.
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