ArticleScientific reports2022
Short-sighted decision-making by those not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Modelling the impact of behavioural interventions during pandemics: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Delay, Doubt and Dollars: Exploring Delay and Probability Discounting of Free and Paid HIV Vaccines among Sexual and Gender Minorities.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Time preferences and COVID-19 vaccination uptake.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Perceived aging risk and private medical insurance intentions: education, subjective health, and a China-Malaysia comparison.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Delay discounting predicts COVID-19 vaccine booster willingness.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Predictors of Change in Vaccination Decisions Among the Vaccine Hesitant: Examining the Roles of Age and Intolerance of Uncertainty.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Assessing the relationship between delay discounting and decisions to engage in various protective behaviors during COVID-19.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Can delay discounting predict vaccine hesitancy 4-years later? A study among US young adults.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- A mini-review on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected intertemporal choice.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Widespread vaccination is necessary to minimize or halt the effects of many infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Stagnating vaccine uptake can prolong pandemics, raising the question of how we might predict, prevent, and correct vaccine hesitancy and unwillingness. In a multinational sample (N = 4,452) recruited from 13 countries that varied in pandemic severity and vaccine uptake (July 2021), we examined whether short-sighted decision-making as exemplified by steep delay discounting-choosing smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards-predicts COVID-19 vaccination status. Delay discounting was steeper in unvaccinated individuals and predicted vaccination status over and above demographics or mental health. The results suggest that delay discounting, a personal characteristic known to be modifiable through cognitive interventions, is a contributing cause of differences in vaccine compliance.
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