Vaccine hesitancy: contemporary issues and historical background

RF Nuwarda, I Ramzan, L Weekes, V Kayser - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vaccination, despite being recognized as one of the most effective primary public health
measures, is viewed as unsafe and unnecessary by an increasing number of individuals …

C ommunicating doctors' consensus persistently increases COVID-19 vaccinations

V Bartoš, M Bauer, J Cahlíková, J Chytilová - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The reluctance of people to get vaccinated represents a fundamental challenge to
containing the spread of deadly infectious diseases,, including COVID-19. Identifying …

The costs of polarizing a pandemic: Antecedents, consequences, and lessons

JJ Van Bavel, C Pretus, S Rathje… - Perspectives on …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Polarization has been rising in the United States of America for the past few decades and
now poses a significant—and growing—public-health risk. One of the signature features of …

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

JG Voelkel, MN Stagnaro, JY Chu, SL Pink, JS Mernyk… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American
democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n= 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments …

Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences

A Almaatouq, TL Griffiths, JW Suchow… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not

KL Milkman, SF Ellis, DM Gromet, Y Jung, AS Luscher… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Encouraging routine COVID-19 vaccinations is likely to be a crucial policy challenge for
decades to come. To avert hundreds of thousands of unnecessary hospitalizations and …

Electronic nudges to increase influenza vaccination uptake in Denmark: a nationwide, pragmatic, registry-based, randomised implementation trial

ND Johansen, M Vaduganathan, AS Bhatt, SG Lee… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Influenza vaccination rates remain suboptimal despite effectiveness in
preventing influenza infection and related complications. We investigated whether …

How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: Evidence from a large archive of campaigns' own experiments

L Hewitt, D Broockman, A Coppock… - American Political …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Political campaigns increasingly conduct experiments to learn how to persuade voters. Little
research has considered the implications of this trend for elections or democracy. To probe …

Effect size magnification: No variable is as important as the one you're thinking about—while you're thinking about it

L Gandhi, BS Manning… - Current Directions in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of psychological science is to discover truths about human nature, and the typical
form of empirical insights is a simple statement of the form x relates to y. We suggest that …

Impact of information framing and vaccination characteristics on parental COVID-19 vaccine acceptance for children: a discrete choice experiment

K Wang, ELY Wong, AWL Cheung, VCH Chung… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
This study aimed to test the influence of vaccination characteristics and gain/loss-framing of
information, on parental acceptance of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …