Submitted by Daniele Campello on Mon, 24/06/2019 - 12:14
Dr Sander van der Linden of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory joins BBC World News Live 21/6/2019 to talk about the Psychology of Vaccine Hesitancy.
The recent Wellcome Trust report surveying 140,000 individuals in over 140 countries finds relatively low trust in vaccines in Western Europe. Read more Dr van der Linden comments on countering science denial in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News
The Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab recently published a study developing a "psychological vaccine" against misinformation. The research received worldwide coverage from over 300 media and news outlets around the globe
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