Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg

Cecilie S. Traberg is a Psychology Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in social influence. Working in the Social Decision-Making Lab and supervised by Professor Sander van der Linden, her research investigates how social context, group dynamics and persuasion processes impact perceptions of information, belief systems and behaviours. Her work integrates insights from social psychology, marketing, and cognitive neuroscience to address pressing societal challenges.

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Cecilie has held visiting fellowships at Harvard Business School, Princeton University, and the University of Copenhagen and was recently an inaugural Storytelling Fellow at the University Arts London. She holds an M.Phil. Psychology from University of Cambridge, an M.Sc. Social Cognition (with Distinction) from University College London and a B.Sc. Marketing with Psychology (First Class Honours) from Lancaster University. 

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Her work is supported by multiple scholarships, including the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship and the Economic and Social Research Council. She has secured over $291,000 in research funding, has published in journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and has collaborated with global organizations such as the World Health Organization (see her chapter in the book Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century here)​.

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She was amongst the finalists for the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research Award in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Cambridge Student-Led Teaching Award for her teaching for the Master's in Management at Judge Business School in 2022, where she was the highest ranked supervisor (teaching assistant) in her two years of teaching.

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Cecilie regularly gives talks to both academic and lay audiences on topics such as the psychology of influence, misinformation and group dynamics. Recently, she gave invited talks at MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, University of Copenhagen & University of Pennsylvania; and was an invited speaker at a government department conference on misinformation in the UK. 

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Find her Google Scholar here or download her CV here.