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Rob Brotherton

Rob Brotherton
Rob Brotherton, author of Bad News, is an academic psychologist and science writer who likes to walk on the weird side of psychology. His first book, Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories, was published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2015 and was shortlisted for a British Psychological Society Book Award. Rob completed a PhD on the psychology of conspiracy theories at Goldsmiths, University of London, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. After a time lecturing at Goldsmiths, he moved to New York City, where he researches and teaches political psychology, among other things, at Barnard College, Columbia University.


When All of New York City Stopped Reading the News at Once

Chronicling an Odd 17 Days in 1945
May 26, 2020  By Rob Brotherton
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