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SUMMARY:Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation - Prof Sander van
  der Linden\, University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Much like a viral contagion\, false information ca
 n spread rapidly from one mind to another. Moreover\, once lodged in memor
 y\, misinformation is difficult to correct. Inoculation theory therefore o
 ffers a natural basis for developing a psychological ‘vaccine’ against
  the spread of fake news and misinformation. Specifically\, in a series of
  randomized lab and field studies\, we show that it is possible to pre-emp
 tively “immunize” people against disinformation about a wide range of 
 topics by pre-exposing them to severely weakened doses of the techniques t
 hat underlie its production. This socio-cognitive process (also known as 
 “prebunking”) helps people cultivate cognitive antibodies in a simulat
 ed social media environment. During the talk\, I’ll showcase several awa
 rd-winning real-world interventions we developed and empirically evaluated
  in 20 languages—with governments and social media companies—to help c
 itizens around the world recognize and resist unwanted attempts to influen
 ce and mislead. \n\n*Biography:* Sander van der Linden\, Ph.D.\, is Profes
 sor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social D
 ecision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Ca
 mbridge. He has been ranked among the top 1% of social scientists in the w
 orld (by citation and impact) and has won numerous awards for his research
  on human judgment\, communication\, and decision-making\, including the R
 ising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS)\, th
 e Sage Early Career Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psyc
 hology (SPSP)\, and the Sir James Cameron Medal from the Royal College of 
 Physicians. He co-designed the award-winning fake news game Bad News\, whi
 ch has been played by millions of people around the world and frequently a
 dvises governments and social media companies on how to fight misinformati
 on. His research is regularly featured in outlets such as Nature Medicine\
 , Nature Human Behaviour\, PNAS\, and Psychological Science as well as pop
 ular outlets such Rolling Stone\, BBC\, and the New York Times. He is curr
 ently writing two books\, PREBUNKED (WW Norton/HarperCollins) and the Psyc
 hology of Misinformation (Cambridge University Press) and leads the APA’
 s consensus report on the psychology of misinformation. Before joining Cam
 bridge\, he held academic positions at Princeton\, Yale\, and the LSE. For
  more information on Prof van der Linden\, please visit: https://www.psych
 ol.cam.ac.uk/people/sander-van-der-linden\n\n*The seminar will be chaired 
 by Dr Noham Wolpe*
LOCATION:Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk)
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