ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Scientific and Folk Theories of Viral Transmission: A Comparison of COVID-19 and the Common Cold.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Mysterious illnesses have supernatural and ritualistic cures: Evidence from 3,655 century-old Irish folk cures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Who gets sicker and why? Parents' perceptions of COVID-19 disparities and how they would explain them to their children.PloS one · 2025Article
- "It kinda has like a mind": Children's and parents' beliefs concerning viral disease transmission for COVID-19 and the common cold.Cognition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Disease transmission is a fruitful domain in which to examine how scientific and folk theories interrelate, given laypeople's access to multiple sources of information to explain events of personal significance. The current paper reports an in-depth survey of U.S. adults' (
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