Steven Rathje is a psychologist who studies misinformation and political polarization on social media using methods from experimental psychology and computational social science. Rathje is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. He has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and his research has been covered by outlets such as the BBC, NBC, and the Guardian. He has written about psychology for the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and Psychology Today. Rathje received his B.A. in Psychology and Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cambridge.