Political polarization and health

JJ Van Bavel, SK Gadarian, E Knowles, K Ruggeri - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
In addition to social determinants of health, such as economic resources, education, access
to care and various environmental factors, there is growing evidence that political …

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 …

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

K Ruggeri, F Stock, SA Haslam, V Capraro, P Boggio… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Digital public health interventions at scale: The impact of social media advertising on beliefs and outcomes related to COVID vaccines

S Athey, K Grabarz, M Luca… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit
of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about 40millionofsocialmediaadvertisementsthatw …

Behavioural interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media

K Ruggeri, S Vanderslott, Y Yamada, YA Argyris… - bmj, 2024 - bmj.com
Effective population level vaccina-tion campaigns are fundamental to public health. 1-3
Counter campaigns, which are as old as the first vaccines, 4 disrupt uptake and can threaten …

Vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from failure and success

SD Kominers, A Tabarrok - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The losses from the global Covid-19 pandemic have been staggering—trillions in economic
costs, on top of significant losses of life, health, and well-being. The world made significant …

Covid-19 spillover effects onto general vaccine attitudes

K Lunz Trujillo, J Green, A Safarpour… - Public Opinion …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Even amid the unprecedented public health challenges attributable to the COVID-19
pandemic, opposition to vaccinating against the novel coronavirus has been both prevalent …

Online engagement with 2020 election misinformation and turnout in the 2021 Georgia runoff election

J Green, W Hobbs, S McCabe… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Following the 2020 general election, Republican elected officials, including then-President
Donald Trump, promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Joe Biden's close victory in …

Communities of knowledge in trouble

N Rabb, M Geana, S Sloman - … on Psychological Science, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The community-of-knowledge framework explains the extraordinary success of the human
species, despite individual members' demonstrably shallow understanding of many topics …

Understanding the rationales and information environments for early, late, and nonadopters of the COVID-19 vaccine

L Singh, L Bao, L Bode, C Budak, J Pasek… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Anti-vaccine sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic grew at an alarming rate, leaving
much to understand about the relationship between people's vaccination status and the …