Submitted by Daniele Campello on Wed, 15/05/2019 - 10:05
The New York Times article "These Days, It’s Not About the Polar Bears" cited one of the research projects Dr Sander van der Linden leads, the inoculation-based online Fake News game: Bad News.
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"In Europe, Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, codesigned an inoculation-based online game with doctoral researcher Jon Roozenbeek. The game was designed to help its hundreds of thousands of players become better consumers of climate-related information. “We’re trying,” Dr. van der Linden said, “to help people help themselves and navigate this post-truth environment.”" Read full article > |
In related news, Dr van der Linden will be presenting his research on misinformation at the Hay Festival, read the interview leading up to his talk and press release here.
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