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ArticleBrain, behavior, & immunity - health2023

COVID-19 vaccination and the behavioral immune system: The newcomer and the old friend get along in preventing infection.

Alfonso Troisi, Roberta Croce Nanni, Simone De Sanctis, Giulia Dieguez, Valeria Carola

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Article in Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alfonso TroisiInternational Medical School, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Roberta Croce NanniPoliclinico Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford 81, 00133, Rome, Italy.
Simone De SanctisInternational Medical School, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Giulia DieguezInternational Medical School, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Valeria CarolaDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · ITPoliclinico Tor Vergata · ITSapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its old evolutionary history and emotional relevance, the behavioral immune system is one of the less studied individual predictors of vaccine uptake. To fill the gap, we conducted a large online study (2072 participants) during the spring 2022 when the great majority of the Italian population had already received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hierarchical binary logistic regression showed that, after controlling for the confounding effects of demographic and personality factors, there was a significant and positive association between pathogen disgust sensitivity and COVID-19 vaccine uptake (OR, 1.68; 95% CI, 1.42-1.99). The likelihood of being vaccinated for a participant with the highest possible score on the PVD Germ Aversion scale was approximately 12 times higher than the likelihood for a participant with the lowest possible score. Public health messaging could leverage the activation of the behavioral immune system as an emotional driver of vaccine uptake.

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Behavioral immune systemCOVID-19Germ aversionPathogen disgustVaccine

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PMID37063495
PMCPMC10081877
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