Sander van der Linden

Sander van der Linden is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where research focuses on misinformation, inoculation theory, persuasion, and climate change risk perception. Van der Linden has published extensively on how exposure to scientific consensus shapes public beliefs, how psychological inoculation can confer resistance to misinformation, and on the social and ideological factors that influence risk judgments. Additional research interests include gamification as an intervention tool, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, and the prevention of violent extremism.