Biography

Prof Sander van der Linden is a Dutch-Jewish behavioral scientist, Professor of Social Psychology, and popular science writer and author. He is ranked among the top 1% of highly cited social scientists worldwide. His work is regularly featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, and the BBC. He has been described by Wired magazine as one of "15 top thinkers" and by Fast Company Design as one "four heroes who are defending digital democracy online". Before joining Cambridge, he held academic positions at Princeton and Yale. He was born on March 8th, 1986 in Waalwijk, The Netherlands as Sander Leo van der Linden. He married Breanne Chryst in Central Park, New York, in 2016.
- IMDb mini biography by: James Horn

Created a fantastic article about conspiracies I think.

To believe that you cannot accomplish something right now is nothing but an insult to your future self.

There will always be people completely resistant to change, but we tend to find there is room for most people to change their minds, even just a little

Misinformation can be sticky, spreading and replicating like a virus. We wanted to see if we could find a 'vaccine' by preemptively exposing people to a small amount of the type of misinformation they might experience.

After World War II, there was a massive increase and interest in the study of social psychology; people wanted to better understand why and how humans are capable of thinking, supporting, and doing terrible things in extreme circumstances.