Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-
preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as …

Parental vaccine hesitancy is becoming an increasingly important public health concern in
the United States. In March 2020, an assessment of the latest CDC National Immunization …

Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content.
Methods. We compared bots' to average users' rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which …

Vaccination is one of the great achievements of the 20th century, yet persistent public-health
problems include inadequate, delayed, and unstable vaccination uptake. Psychology offers …

Conspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always
been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience …

Introduction: Vaccine hesitancy, defined as a delay in the acceptance or the refusal of
vaccines despite their availability, is a growing global threat. More individuals are turning to …

Risky decision-making lies at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic and will determine
future viral outbreaks. Therefore, a critical evaluation of major explanations of such decision …

A framework is presented for understanding how misinformation shapes decision-making,
which has cognitive representations of gist at its core. I discuss how the framework goes …

Addressing the drivers of vaccine hesitancy and the barriers to vaccine acceptance is a
complex but important task. While the percentage of hesitant does vary from country to …

Development of the Zika virus vaccine is in its early stages, but there is already cause for
concern regarding the success of the eventual vaccination campaign. Evidence suggests …