BS 208 "Foolproof" with Sander van der Linden
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This month's episode is an interview with Cambridge Psychology professor Sander van der Linden, author of "Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity." We discuss the important topic of how techniques like appealing to emotion contribute to the spread of misinformation. Dr. Campbell reflects on why this topic is important.
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- Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden
- Sander van der Linden, Phd (University of Cambridge)
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| 0:00.0 | I think ultimately the only way to reach herd immunity, which is the idea really that if enough people are psychologically |
| 0:10.9 | inoculated in the population so that some of these techniques no longer have any effect. |
| 0:16.0 | I think that's only going to happen if this idea spreads interpersonally. |
| 0:21.0 | So I think people underestimate their own role in the process of pre-bunking and information |
| 0:27.0 | resilience. I think we all have the ability to help each other and we don't just have to leave it to fact checkers. |
| 0:34.0 | That's my message that everyone can play an active role in helping each other |
| 0:38.0 | spot manipulative information. |
| 0:54.4 | Welcome to Brain Science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode |
| 0:58.1 | 2008. You can find complete show notes and episode transcripts at brain science |
| 1:04.3 | podcast.com and you can send me feedback at brain science podcast at gmail |
| 1:09.7 | com. I also want to mention that the brain science mobile app is now called |
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| 1:28.0 | This month's episode is an interview with Xander Vandirlanden about his new book, |
| 1:35.0 | Foolproof, why misinformation infects our minds |
| 1:39.8 | and how to build immunity. |
| 1:42.2 | Dr. Vanderlendon is a professor of psychology at Cambridge University |
| 1:46.5 | in the UK and in recent years he has been exploring how to help people resist false information and manipulation. |
| 1:55.0 | Given that the spread of false information cost thousands of lives during the COVID |
| 2:02.0 | pandemic, I feel that this topic is both timely and |
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