Association of moral values with vaccine hesitancy

Amin, Avnika B.; Bednarczyk, Robert A.; Ray, Cara; Melchiori, Kala J.; Graham, Jesse; Huntsinger, Jeffrey R.; Omer, Saad B.

doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0256-5

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“…Analysing people's political views, we found those who are sceptical towards vaccination trust less the legal norms, both in a national and at a European level. Contrary to what is reported by a study carried in the US [1], vaccine hesitancy is related to a tendency to argue that newer lifestyles contribute to the decline of the society while feeling the urge to defend more the traditional religious and moral values. The personality determinants of vaccine hesitancy relate to low agreeableness and high openness to experience traits.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…On the other hand, AV pages focus on the idea of free choice, purpose, obligation and power. This is in line with the study of Amin et al [1] who stated that vaccine-hesitant individuals are emphasising more the moral value of "liberty", the so-called sixth moral foundation. The above items are expressing a similar notion to the ones included in the "liberty foundation" scale employed to quantify this scale [24].…”

Section: Moral Values In Facebook Pagessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Further, there seems to be a propensity of the AV cohort to defend the traditional religious and moral values (Q1), p-value = 0.011, and also argue that the newer lifestyles contribute to the decline of our society (Q9), p-value < 0.001. This finding contrast studies carried out in the US, where people with negative views towards vaccination seem to value more the notion of freedom, concerning personal expression, and religious beliefs, to the vaccine supporters [1]. Table 1, reports the differences in core political values between the two cohorts.…”

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confidence: 69%

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Human Values and Attitudes towards Vaccination in Social Media

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Psychological, political, cultural, and even societal factors are entangled in the reasoning and decision-making process towards vaccination, rendering vaccine hesitancy a complex issue. Here, administering a series of surveys via a Facebook-hosted application, we study the worldviews of people that "Liked" supportive or vaccine resilient Facebook Pages. In particular, we assess differences in political viewpoints, moral values, personality traits, and general interests, finding that those sceptical about vaccination, appear to trust less the government, are less agreeable, while they are emphasising more on anti-authoritarian values. Exploring the differences in moral narratives as expressed in the linguistic descriptions of the Facebook Pages, we see that pages that defend vaccines prioritise the value of the family while the vaccine hesitancy pages are focusing on the value of freedom. Finally, creating embeddings based on the health-related likes on Facebook Pages, we explore common, latent interests of vaccine-hesitant people, showing a strong preference for natural cures. This exploratory analysis aims at exploring the potentials of a social media platform to act as a sensing tool, providing researchers and policymakers with insights drawn from the digital traces, that can help design communication campaigns that build confidence, based on the values that also appeal to the socio-moral criteria of people.

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“…Finally, a third category of moral reframing research has explored its efficacy in shaping liberals' and conservatives' attitudes on issues that are largely nonpolitical or, at least, not strongly aligned with either liberal or conservative political ideologies. These studies have targeted outcomes like vaccine hesitancy, diversity and inclusion, and stem cell technology (Amin et al, 2017;Brannon, Carter, Murdock-Perriera, & Higginbotham, 2018;Clifford, Jerit, Rainey, & Motyl, 2015;Hoover et al, 2018;Kljajic & Feinberg, 2019;Lee, Yoon, Lee, & Royne, 2018;Winterich, Mittal, & Aquino, 2013). Along these lines, a handful of studies have examined the effects of moral reframing on liberals' and conservatives' tendencies to donate money to different types of charities.…”

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Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

Feinberg

Willer

2019

Social & Personality Psych

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The political landscape in the US and many other countries is characterized by policy impasses and animosity between rival political groups. Research finds that these divisions are fueled in part by disparate moral concerns and convictions that undermine communication and understanding between liberals and conservatives. This “moral empathy gap” is particularly evident in the moral underpinnings of the political arguments members of each side employ when trying to persuade one another. Both liberals and conservatives typically craft arguments based on their own moral convictions rather than the convictions of the people they target for persuasion. As a result, these moral arguments tend to be unpersuasive, even offensive, to their recipients. The technique of moral reframing—whereby a position an individual would not normally support is framed in a way that is consistent with that individual's moral values—can be an effective means for political communication and persuasion. Over the last decade, studies of moral reframing have shown its effectiveness across a wide range of polarized topics, including views of economic inequality, environmental protection, same‐sex marriage, and major party candidates for the US presidency. In this article, we review the moral reframing literature, examining potential mediators and moderators of the effect, and discuss important questions that remain unanswered about this phenomenon.

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“…In this study, we propose a lexicon for detecting and quantifying the moral rhetoric behind people's judgments, as reflected in spontaneous digital interactions. Moral values influence the way we rationalize and take a stance upon controversial topics, like abortion [1], homosexuality [1], climate change [2], or even vaccine hesitancy [3,4]. They are also closely related to our political views [5] and the opinion formation mechanisms regarding immigration [6], political extremism [7,1], and poverty [8].…”

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MoralStrength: Exploiting a moral lexicon and embedding similarity for moral foundations prediction

Araque

Gatti

Kalimeri

2020

Knowledge-Based Systems

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Moral rhetoric plays a fundamental role in how we perceive and interpret the information we receive, greatly influencing our decision-making process. Especially when it comes to controversial social and political issues, our opinions and attitudes are hardly ever based on evidence alone. The Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) was developed to operationalize moral values in the text. In this study, we present MoralStrength, a lexicon of approximately 1,000 lemmas, obtained as an extension of the Moral Foundations Dictionary, based on Word-Net synsets. Moreover, for each lemma it provides with a crowdsourced numeric assessment of Moral Valence, indicating the strength with which a lemma is expressing the specific value. We evaluated the predictive potentials of this moral lexicon, defining three utilization approaches of increased complexity, ranging from lemmas' statistical properties to a deep learning approach of word embeddings based on semantic similarity. Logistic regression models trained on the features extracted from MoralStrength, significantly outperformed the current state-of-the-art, reaching an F1-score of 87.6% over the previous 62.4% (p-value< 0.01), and an average F1-Score of 86.25% over six different datasets. Such findings pave the way for further research, allowing for an in-depth understanding of moral narratives in text for a wide range of social issues.

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Association of moral values with vaccine hesitancy

Cited by 271 publications

References 52 publications

Human Values and Attitudes towards Vaccination in Social Media

Human Values and Attitudes towards Vaccination in Social Media

Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

MoralStrength: Exploiting a moral lexicon and embedding similarity for moral foundations prediction

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