ArticleNature human behaviour2023
The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Determination of Factors Affecting Covid-19 Vaccine Literacy and in Pandemics Vaccine Hesitation Levels of Adults: A Cross-sectional Study.Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi · 2025Article
- The Evolution of Monkeypox Vaccination Acceptance in Romania: A Comparative Analysis (2022-2025), Psychosocial Perceptions, and the Impact of Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric on Societal Security.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How perceived coercion polarizes unvaccinated people: The mediating role of conspiracy beliefs.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- [Evaluation of the implementation of the measles and COVID-19 vaccination mandates by public health authorities and health facilities: 2 case studies].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025Article
- [Vaccine hesitancy in postpandemic times-A guide for physicians].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Effectiveness of self-financed rotavirus vaccines on acute gastroenteritis primary care episodes using real-world data in Spain: a propensity score-matched analysis of cohort study.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Understanding the complex links between social media and health behaviour.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Personal rights over public Health: Anti-vaccine rhetoric in the Texas Legislature.Vaccine: X · 2024Article
- A practical agenda for incorporating trust into pandemic preparedness and response.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Article
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- Neural alignment during outgroup intervention predicts future change of affect towards outgroup.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Asymmetric polarization by vaccination status identification during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Sickness absence due to mandatory COVID-19 certificates in the workplace.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Attitudes toward Vaccination: Representative Study of Polish Society.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Public discord between those vaccinated and those unvaccinated for COVID-19 has intensified globally. Theories of intergroup relations propose that identifying with one's social group plays a key role in the perceptions and behaviours that fuel intergroup conflict. We test whether identification with one's vaccination status is associated with current societal polarization. The study draws on panel data from samples of vaccinated (n = 3,267) and unvaccinated (n = 2,038) respondents in Germany and Austria that were collected in December 2021 and February, March and July 2022. The findings confirm that vaccination status identification (VSI) explains substantial variance in a range of polarizing attitudes and behaviours. VSI was also related to higher psychological reactance toward mandatory vaccination policies among the unvaccinated. Higher levels of VSI reduced the gap between intended and actual counterbehaviours over time by the unvaccinated. VSI appears to be an important measure for predicting behavioural responses to vaccination policies.
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