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Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge where he directs the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory. Prior to this, he held academic positions at Princeton University and Yale University. He is ranked in the top 1% of social scientists worldwide and frequently advises government and social media companies on how to counter misinformation.
Jon Roozenbeek is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he works on misinformation, vaccine hesitancy and online extremist recruitment. His PhD research (2020) examined media discourse in the Donetsk and Luhansk "People's Republics" in eastern Ukraine.
Stephan is a cognitive scientist, currently Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol and a member of the university's Cabot Institute. His research examines people’s memory and decision making, with particular emphasis on how people respond to corrections of misinformation. He has published over 140 scholarly articles, chapters, and books, including a recent journal article on how people process information about the Iraq War, which revealed the important role of skepticism in people’s ability to update their memories. He was elected a fellow of the Center for Skeptical Inquiry in 2015.
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