‘Fake News and Why We Fall For It’ with Sander van der Linden

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During this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender discuss the pervasive issue of misinformation and its implications for society with Professor Sander van der Linden. Sander is Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and has also held posts at Princeton and Yale University. His research interests centre around the psychology of human judgment and decision-making and in particular he is interested in the social influence and persuasion process and how people are influenced by (mis)information and how they can gain resistance to persuasion through psychological inoculation.

Sander is also interested in the psychology of conspiracy theories, extremism and radicalization, (digital) media effects, social networks, polarization, and the emergence of social norms, reasoning about evidence, and public understanding of risk and uncertainty. He has published around 175 papers and is ranked among the top 1% of all social scientists worldwide.

In 2023, Sander’s book ‘FOOLPROOF: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity’ was published.

Referenced during this episode:

https://foolproofbook.com

https://inoculation.science/

Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)

The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. When was the last time that you were fooled by misinformation? (00:05:27)

3. How did your childhood experiences in the 90s shape where you are today? (00:07:24)

4. What was most surprising during that process of discovery? (00:09:14)

5. What do you think is different today in terms of how are brains have adapted to the online space? (00:15:34)

6. You talk about psychological vaccination against misinformation. (00:24:57)

7. Could you give us an example of some misinformation that we could get a vaccination against? (00:30:15)

8. Why is disinformation so hard to get rid of? (00:33:43)

9. What’s the current scale of the problem? (00:38:06)

10. Tell us more about fake news and the building blocks of misinformation. (00:43:19)

11. What is the motivation for spreading misinformation? (00:50:40)

12. What are the leadership implications? (00:54:36)

13. Where can listeners get information on your approach? (01:00:12)

14. What’s next for you? (01:00:44)

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