Understanding parental vaccine refusal: Implicit and explicit associations about vaccines as potential building blocks of vaccine beliefs and behavior

Howell, Jennifer L.; Gasser, Melissa L.; Kaysen, Debra; Lindgren, Kristen P.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115275

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“…Hesitancy to be vaccinated in general occurs for a number of reasons (e.g., political influences, media influences, individual differences, implicit and explicit attitudes; Dube et al, 2013;Hornsey et al, 2018;Howell et al, 2022). The current results suggest that for those who choose to be unvaccinated, risk perception is skewed.…”

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Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

Hauser¹,

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2023

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Is disease risk perception accurately calibrated among the unvaccinated? People shift their attitudes to rationalize their choices, so those who choose to be unvaccinated may be motivated to feel less at risk. In three studies (total N = 1,446), we asked Americans how worried they were about catching/spreading influenza and COVID-19 and whether they were vaccinated against those diseases. Unvaccinated participants felt less at risk of catching/spreading the diseases they were unvaccinated against than vaccinated participants. For instance, unvaccinated participants felt ~24% less at risk of catching/spreading COVID-19 and had ~28% stronger intention to engage in activities that carried a high risk of COVID-19 transmission (Study 3). Overall, those who choose to be the most vulnerable to disease feel and act the least vulnerable.

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Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

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2023

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“…Hesitancy to be vaccinated in general occurs for a number of reasons (e.g., political influences, media influences, individual differences, implicit and explicit attitudes; Dubé et al., 2013; Hornsey et al., 2018; Howell et al., 2022). The current results suggest that for those who choose to be unvaccinated, risk perception is skewed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

Hauser

Meier

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Is disease risk perception accurately calibrated among the unvaccinated? People shift their attitudes to rationalize their choices, so those who choose to be unvaccinated may be motivated to feel less at risk. In three studies (total N = 1446), we asked Americans how worried they were about catching/spreading influenza and COVID‐19 and whether they were vaccinated against those diseases. Unvaccinated participants felt less at risk of catching/spreading the diseases they were unvaccinated against than vaccinated participants. For instance, unvaccinated participants felt ∼24% less at risk of catching/spreading COVID‐19 and had ∼28% stronger intention to engage in activities that carried a high risk of COVID‐19 transmission (Study 3). Overall, those who choose to be the most vulnerable to disease feel and act the least vulnerable.

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“…While a large body of work has examined explicit beliefs that underly vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal, in general (Dubé et al., 2015), far less is known about these implicit vaccine beliefs (Howell et al., 2022). Crucially, no published work that we are aware of has examined the role of associative processes surrounding COVID‐19 vaccination.…”

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“…Crucially, no published work that we are aware of has examined the role of associative processes surrounding COVID‐19 vaccination. Still, understanding associative processes—that is the process underlying many implicit and explicit beliefs—is important to explaining health behaviors broadly (Sheeran et al., 2016), and when predicting unique variance in vaccination beliefs and behavior specifically (Howell et al., 2022).…”

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Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors

Hinojosa,

Meese,

Howell

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Social & Personality Psych

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We investigated the role of implicit and explicit associations between harm and COVID‐19 vaccines using a large sample (N = 4668) of online volunteers. The participants completed a brief implicit association test and explicit measures to evaluate the extent to which they associated COVID‐19 vaccines with concepts of harmfulness or helpfulness. We examined the relationship between these harmfulness/helpfulness COVID‐19 vaccine associations and vaccination status, intentions, beliefs, and behavior. We found that stronger implicit and explicit associations that COVID‐19 vaccines are helpful relate to vaccination status and beliefs about the COVID‐19 vaccine. That is, stronger pro‐helpful COVID‐19 vaccine associations, both implicitly and explicitly, related to greater intentions to be vaccinated, more positive beliefs about the vaccine, and greater vaccine uptake.

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Understanding parental vaccine refusal: Implicit and explicit associations about vaccines as potential building blocks of vaccine beliefs and behavior

Cited by 7 publications

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Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans

Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors

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