Sander van der Linden

Director of the Cambridge Social Decision Making Lab at the University of Cambridge. Expert in the psychology of misinformation, disinformation, and deception, with a focus on psychological inoculation and pre-bunking approaches to building cognitive resistance. Frequent media commentator and policy advisor on information integrity.

Sources in this wiki

• Bad News: Building Resilience to Misinformation Through Inoculation (video lecture, 2026)
• Misinformation, Disinformation, and Psychological Inoculation (video lecture, Kyiv School of Economics, 2026)
• The Psychology of Misinformation and Psychological Inoculation (video lecture, 2025)

Topics

• Psychological inoculation
• Prebunking and inoculation
• Psychology of misinformation
• Disinformation

Notes

Van der Linden's work is foundational to the shift from detecting false claims to building psychological resistance to manipulation techniques. His Bad News game represents one of the most successful scalable interventions in the misinformation literature, with demonstrated effects across demographics and over time.