Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Sander L. van der Linden is a Dutch social psychologist and author who is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He studies the psychology of social influence, risk, human judgment, and decision-making. He is known for his research on the psychology of social issues, such as fake news, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and climate change denial. .. more
Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz Götz
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Reposted by Walter Quattrociocchi
In delegating, are we confusing linguistic plausibility with epistemic reliability?
The age of "epistemia"
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Reposted by Marc Lynch, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell , and 45 more Marc Lynch, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell, David Lazer, Sander van der Linden, Will Jennings, Gordon Pennycook, Brendan Nyhan, Carl T. Bergstrom, John De Vos, Olivier Klein, Scott L. Greer, Steven Van de Walle, Michael A. Clemens, Victor Asal, Steven S. Smith, Maarten Vink, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Jon Green, Rebecca Sear, Calvin K. Lai, Juan Cole, Benjamin Braun, Mary Corcoran, Dorothea Kübler, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jane Suiter, Paolo Crosetto, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, Julia Lynch, Margot C. Finn, Andreas De Block, Matthijs Rooduijn, Sebastian Karcher, Jutta Haider, Michael Jones‐Correa, Fabrizio Bernardi, Guy J. Curtis, Johannes Breuer, Georg Weizsäcker, Tom Louwerse, Juan Ramón, Tim Stephens, Pepper D. Culpepper, Dana Howard, Evan Roberts
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden, Victor Pickard
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Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Olivier Klein
Reposted by Sander van der Linden, John R. Hutchinson, Smith
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1. Prebunk - prevention is key
2. Validate their worldview first
3. Reiterate social consensus to highlight extremism
4. Involve ex-conspiracy theorists
5. Keep in touch & prevent isolation
shorturl.at/dmldd
Reposted by Diane Coyle
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Sander van der Linden
"...helps people better discern reliable from unreliable news without causing cynicism about media."
Needed: "ability to spot & discuss attempts to manipulate public opinion"
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✔️We can help people distinguish signal from noise. 4/5
✅Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT), we find that prebunking/inoculation interventions consistently improve people's ability to discern between reliable and unreliable news without making people unduly skeptical or credulous!
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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky, Greg Linden
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✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
Reposted by Sander van der Linden
In the latest episode of The We Society podcast, Will Hutton is joined by @profsanderlinden.bsky.social to discuss how we can inoculate ourselves against misinformation.
🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/sand...
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@jagolinzer.bsky.social
Reposted by Sander van der Linden
Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation.
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