Sander van der Linden
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Great work from @walter4c.bsky.social & co!
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great work from @walter4c.bsky.social & co!
Let’s hope that’s the explanation
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Let’s hope that’s the explanation
Would have been better!
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Would have been better!
The standardized Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment - Behavior Research Methods
Interest in the psychology of misinformation has exploded in recent years. Despite ample research, to date there is no validated framework to measure misinformation susceptibility. Therefore, we intro...
link.springer.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The standardized Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) link.springer.com/article/10.3...
It is! But it doesn't seem to protect against misinfo effects, which is somewhat surprising.
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It is! But it doesn't seem to protect against misinfo effects, which is somewhat surprising.
But cognitive antibody generation can be measured both physiologically and with fMRI in a way that maps onto behavioral constructs so it's pretty concrete to me.
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
But cognitive antibody generation can be measured both physiologically and with fMRI in a way that maps onto behavioral constructs so it's pretty concrete to me.
For sure - we created some fun games that might lure people in by taking on the role of a grifter, e.g. Bad Vaxx www.badvaxx.com
Bad Vaxx
A wild game about a serious subject
www.badvaxx.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For sure - we created some fun games that might lure people in by taking on the role of a grifter, e.g. Bad Vaxx www.badvaxx.com
We tackle that philosophical question here psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We tackle that philosophical question here psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
FYI might be of interest @katestarbird.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @noupside.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @lkfazio.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @brendannyhan.bsky.social @tspampatti.bsky.social @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @matthewfacciani.bsky.social @commscholar.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We hope the field will take forward this more flexible approach to evaluate misinformation interventions using Signal Detection Theory. This was a long time coming & made possible because of the brilliant collabs & computational work from @almogsi.bsky.social & team + @lewan.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We hope the field will take forward this more flexible approach to evaluate misinformation interventions using Signal Detection Theory. This was a long time coming & made possible because of the brilliant collabs & computational work from @almogsi.bsky.social & team + @lewan.bsky.social
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Bottom line: policy-makers, educators, and practitioners can readily scale inoculation interventions without worrying about whether they might make people too vigilant (if there was such a concern in the current political environment!).
✔️We can help people distinguish signal from noise. 4/5
✔️We can help people distinguish signal from noise. 4/5
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Bottom line: policy-makers, educators, and practitioners can readily scale inoculation interventions without worrying about whether they might make people too vigilant (if there was such a concern in the current political environment!).
✔️We can help people distinguish signal from noise. 4/5
✔️We can help people distinguish signal from noise. 4/5
Unlike prior work, we advance a Bayesian ordinal multi-level model that directly estimates discrimination ability & response bias, respecting the ordinal-level nature of reliability ratings, accounting for item-level & participant-level random effects + explicitly modelling latent variance. 3/5
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Unlike prior work, we advance a Bayesian ordinal multi-level model that directly estimates discrimination ability & response bias, respecting the ordinal-level nature of reliability ratings, accounting for item-level & participant-level random effects + explicitly modelling latent variance. 3/5
Can people learn to detect signal amidst all the noise?
✅Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT), we find that prebunking/inoculation interventions consistently improve people's ability to discern between reliable and unreliable news without making people unduly skeptical or credulous!
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✅Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT), we find that prebunking/inoculation interventions consistently improve people's ability to discern between reliable and unreliable news without making people unduly skeptical or credulous!
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October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can people learn to detect signal amidst all the noise?
✅Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT), we find that prebunking/inoculation interventions consistently improve people's ability to discern between reliable and unreliable news without making people unduly skeptical or credulous!
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✅Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT), we find that prebunking/inoculation interventions consistently improve people's ability to discern between reliable and unreliable news without making people unduly skeptical or credulous!
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