Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Sander van der Linden studies the psychology of misinformation. He and his lab have conducted studies to understand why people believe false information, and they've also leveraged the psychology of "inoculation" to build tools that help people avoid falling prey to misinformation. He describes this work and more in his new book, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity.
You can play the video game that Sander's lab built to inoculate people against misinformation. The game is called Bad News.
At the beginning of the episode, I share the story of the first bit of fake news in American media. In tracing the arc of the story and getting the critical details, I turned primarily to Andie Tucher's recent book, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Other details thanks to an interview Tucher did, a story in The Saturday Evening Post, and an article by Emmanuel Paraschos.
Episode 72 of Opinion Science, Released January 30, 2023. Produced and hosted by Andy Luttrell.
For more (+ links), head to this episode's webpage: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/fighting-against-misinformation-with-sander-van-der-linden
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Sander van der Linden studies the psychology of misinformation. He and his lab have conducted studies to understand why people believe false information, and they've also leveraged the psychology of "inoculation" to build tools that help people avoid falling prey to misinformation. He describes this work and more in his new book, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity.
You can play the video game that Sander's lab built to inoculate people against misinformation. The game is called Bad News.
At the beginning of the episode, I share the story of the first bit of fake news in American media. In tracing the arc of the story and getting the critical details, I turned primarily to Andie Tucher's recent book, Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History. Other details thanks to an interview Tucher did, a story in The Saturday Evening Post, and an article by Emmanuel Paraschos.
Episode 72 of Opinion Science, Released January 30, 2023. Produced and hosted by Andy Luttrell.
For more (+ links), head to this episode's webpage: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/fighting-against-misinformation-with-sander-van-der-linden
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Opinion Science is a psychology podcast exploring the science of our opinions, where they come from and how they change. Each week I talk to social scientists and professional communicators about how the work they do reveals key insights about public opinion and persuasion.
Follow this psychology podcast...
Website: opinionsciencepodcast.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/opinion-science/id1506227206
Twitter: twitter.com/OpinionSciPod
Facebook: facebook.com/OpinionSciPod
