ArticlePNAS nexus2023
Vaccine-hesitant people misperceive the social norm of vaccination.
Article in PNAS nexus, 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 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- How to Improve People's Intentions Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination in China: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Trial
- Authority endorsements backfire and social norms fail to increase vaccination intent in post-COVID Kazakhstan.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Assessing How Fact-Checks Influence Accuracy and Consensus Judgments: Evidence From the Olympics.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026Article
- Anticonformists catalyze societal transitions and facilitate the expression of evolving preferences.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Mistrust during Pandemic Decline: Findings from 2021 and 2023 Cross-Sectional Surveys in Northern Italy.Vaccines · 2024Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the main threats to global health, as became clear once more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination campaigns could benefit from appeals to social norms to promote vaccination, but without awareness of the social norm in place any intervention relying on social norms may backfire. We present a two-step approach of social norm diagnosis and intervention that identifies both whether a vaccination norm exists or develops over time and corrects misperceptions. In two studies (
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