Vaccination is a vital defense against COVID-19 infections and outbreaks, yet vaccine
hesitancy poses a significant threat to pandemic response and recovery. We conducted a …

This study aims to examine whether and how user-generated comments and reaction emojis
on COVID-19 vaccine-promoting Facebook posts induce psychological reactance to posts …

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the need for the largest mass vaccination
campaign ever undertaken to date, African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) populations have …

Loss and gain frames have been extensively employed to promote vaccination. However,
previous studies have yet to reach a consensus on which frame is more effective. Besides …

Vaccine" unnaturalness"(artificiality) is one of the major anti-vaccine arguments raised in
public debate. Therefore, health communication should rebut unnaturalness arguments and …

The role of social media has been momentous in COVID-19 vaccine discussions. This study
explores the impact of social media interactions on vaccination intention by employing the …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provided an existential threat the
world has rarely seen and forced Americans to make meaning in a world of uncertainty …

Message effects on psychological reactance have been well-documented in communication
research. To obtain an overall picture of message effects on psychological reactance, this …

Despite increasing disease incidence and remarkably high mortality rates, Black women are
underrepresented in breast cancer (BC) clinical trials (CTs), likely limiting the …

Persuasive health messages are frequently advertised throughout the pandemic to
decrease the spread of COVID-19 while increasing the likelihood of immunity. However …