Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37914928›Full record

ArticleNature2023

Historical narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic are motivationally biased.

Philipp Sprengholz, Luca Henkel, Robert Böhm, Cornelia Betsch

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Comparing the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Public Health Messaging Experiment.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
    Trial
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. [Vaccine hesitancy in postpandemic times-A guide for physicians].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Philipp Sprengholz *Institute of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. philipp.sprengholz@uni-bamberg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9925-1920
Luca Henkel *Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Robert BöhmFaculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-6806-0374
Cornelia BetschInstitute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2856-7303

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How people recall the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is likely to prove crucial in future societal debates on pandemic preparedness and appropriate political action. Beyond simple forgetting, previous research suggests that recall may be distorted by strong motivations and anchoring perceptions on the current situation

Indexed as

Attitude to HealthCOVID-19Mental RecallMotivationPandemicsPrejudicePublic HealthCOVID-19 VaccinesDisaster PlanningHealth PolicyHumansPoliticsPublic OpinionRiskSARS-CoV-2TrustCOVID-19 Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID37914928

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.