Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic

A Bor, F Jørgensen, MB Petersen - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, sizeable groups of unvaccinated people persist even in
countries with high vaccine access. As a consequence, vaccination became a controversial …

Affective polarization in Europe

M Wagner - European Political Science Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
Affective polarization, a concept that originated in the USA, has increasingly been studied in
Europe's multi-party systems. This form of polarization refers to the extent to which party …

Historical narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic are motivationally biased

P Sprengholz, L Henkel, R Böhm, C Betsch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
How people recall the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is likely to prove crucial in future societal
debates on pandemic preparedness and appropriate political action. Beyond simple …

Vaccination mandates and their alternatives and complements

P Schmid, R Böhm, E Das, D Holford, L Korn… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Vaccination mandates are often suggested as a solution to low vaccine uptake. However,
mandates are criticized because they aim to bypass rather than overcome the cognitive …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes toward vaccination: representative study of polish society

T Sobierajski, P Rzymski, M Wanke-Rytt - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The study explored the association between individuals' attitudes toward vaccination and
their actual vaccination behavior. We also examined the impact of the coronavirus disease …

Different interventions for COVID-19 primary and booster vaccination? Effects of psychological factors and health policies on vaccine uptake

P Sprengholz, L Henkel, R Böhm… - Medical Decision …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic requires continued uptake of SARS-CoV-
2 vaccines. To increase vaccination intention and uptake, key determinants of primary and …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content

RM Wood, M Juanchich, M Ramirez, S Zhang - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective During the pandemic healthcare professionals and political leaders routinely used
traditional and new media outlets to publicly respond to COVID-19 myths and inaccuracies …

Neural alignment during outgroup intervention predicts future change of affect towards outgroup

A Kluge, N Somila, K Lankinen, J Levy - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
While social psychology studies have shown that paradoxical thinking intervention has a
moderating effect on negative attitudes toward members from rival social groups (ie …

[HTML][HTML] The social and socio-political embeddedness of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making: A five-country qualitative interview study from Europe

BM Zimmermann, KT Paul, ER Araújo, A Buyx, S Ferstl… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
The uptake of COVID-19 vaccines has varied considerably across European countries. This
study investigates people's decision-making process regarding vaccination by analyzing …

Asymmetric affective polarization regarding COVID-19 vaccination in six European countries

M Filsinger, M Freitag - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
While recent research has shown that supporters and opponents of COVID-19 vaccination
have polarizing political attitudes and beliefs, we lack a thorough understanding of how …