ArticleJournal of applied research in memory and cognition2021
Viruses, Vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and Improving Risky Decision-making.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions.NPJ vaccines · 2024Article
- Dual-systems and Fuzzy-trace Theory Predictions of COVID-19 Risk Taking in Young Adults.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Scenario-Based Messages on Social Media Motivate COVID-19 Information Seeking.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2024Article
- Critical tests of fuzzy trace theory in brain and behavior: uncertainty across time, probability, and development.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Social media: Why sharing interferes with telling true from false.Science advances · 2023Review
- How Does COVID-19 Risk Perception Affect Sense of Control? The Roles of Death Anxiety and Confucian Coping.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Understanding the landscape of web-based medical misinformation about vaccination.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Supporting Health and Medical Decision Making: Findings and Insights from Fuzzy-Trace Theory.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022Article
- Internal and External Motivations and Risk Perception toward COVID-19 Vaccination in Adolescents in the U.S.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Looking Beyond Cognition for Risky Decision Making: COVID-19, the Environment, and Behavior.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Battle for the Gist in the Public Mind.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Gist Representations and Decision-Making Processes Affecting Antibiotic Prescribing for Children with Acute Otitis Media.MDM policy & practiceArticle
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Abstract
Risky decision-making lies at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic and will determine future viral outbreaks. Therefore, a critical evaluation of major explanations of such decision-making is of acute practical importance. We review the underlying mechanisms and predictions offered by expectancy-value and dual-process theories. We then highlight how fuzzy-trace theory builds on these approaches and provides further insight into how knowledge, emotions, values, and metacognitive inhibition influence risky decision-making through its unique mental representational architecture (i.e., parallel verbatim and gist representations of information). We discuss how social values relate to decision-making according to fuzzy-trace theory, including how categorical gist representations cue core values. Although gist often supports health-promoting behaviors such as vaccination, social distancing, and mask-wearing, why this is not always the case as with status-quo gist is explained, and suggestions are offered for how to overcome the "battle for the gist" as it plays out in social media.
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