Media engagement

Press releases

• Philosophical expertise highlights patient voices in healthcare research and practice, 15 March 2023.
• Award winning film that explores youth mental health to be screened in Birmingham, 4 June 2019.
• Philosopher champions Out of Blue film, 15 October 2018.
• Dementia patients with distorted memories may actually retain key information, 6 March 2018.
• University of Birmingham academics launch mental health workshop pack, 2 March 2018.

Articles featuring my research

• J Baffini, Election anxiety and the problem with polarization, Financial Times, 2 November 2024.
• S Love, The truth about 'Mass Formation Psychosis', Vice (US), 20 January 2022. 
• S Antonetta, I am bipolar. I know what it is to be Britney Spears, The Hill (US), 30 July 2021. 
• R Metcalf, The Making of a Boogeyman, SBS (Australia), 18 May 2021. 
• L Scott, Know someone who believes unfounded COVID-19 theories? Here's how to talk to them about it, The Star (Canada), 25 February 2021. 
• L Tait, Nobody has found the perfect recipe for stopping conspiracy theories. Sputnik News, 15 December 2020. 
• A Heil, In the Balkans' most divided country, COVID vaccine cuts both ways. Radio Free Europe, 13 December 2020. Article on the effects of COVID denialism on vaccine uptake.
• N Davis, Optimism may hold secret to longer life, study suggests, Guardian, 26 August 2019. 
• D Jones, Grand delusions: Why we all believe the weirdest things?, New Scientist, 15 November 2017. 
• A Meyerowitz, Could being unrealistically optimistic by good for your mental health?, Red Magazine, 26th June 2017. 
• S Ebraham, What is so Zen about imperfection?, Canvas 8, 3rd February 2017. 
• E Vintiadis, The Irrationality within Us, Scientific American, 12th December 2016. 
• M Beckford and S Adams, Cancer patient forced to have surgery, Daily Telegraph, 26th May 2010. 

Authored articles 

• L Bortolotti, Should we stop talking about delusions? Psychology Today, 16 October 2024.
• L Bortolotti, Finding order in a chaotic world: Understanding the Trump assassination conspiracy theories. Birmingham Brief, July 2024.
• L Bortolotti, Delusions shape our reality, IAI News, March 2024.
• L Bortolotti and A Ichino, Siamo tutti complottisti?, La Repubblica, 12 January 2021. 
• L Bortolotti and A Ichino, Conspiracy theories may seem irrational, but they fulfil a basic human need, The Conversation, December 2020.
• L Bortolotti and K Murphy-Hollies, An exceptionally British hypocrisy, IAI News, December 2020.
• K Puddifoot and L Bortolotti, The Bright Side of Memory Errors, The Philosopher's Magazine, July 2018. 
• L Bortolotti, What's your story?, IAI News, September 2018.
• L Bortolotti, Optimism and the Good Life, IAI News, August 2018.
• L Bortolotti, How validating their distorted memories helps people with dementia, Aeon Ideas, June 2018.
• L Bortolotti, Confabulation: why telling ourselves stories makes us feel ok, Aeon Ideas, February 2018.
• L Bortolotti and A Ichino, Fake news, rimedi dalla psicologia. Ma non viviamo soltanto di verità, La Lettura, Il Corriere, January 2018.
• L Bortolotti, Should human reproductive cloning be allowed?, BBC Focus Magazine, June 2009.
• L Bortolotti, A moral claim not to feel pain, New Statesman, February 2008.