Carey, John M., Keirns, Tracy, Loewen, Peter John, Merkley, Eric, Nyhan, Brendan, Phillips, Joseph B., Rees, Judy R., Reifler, Jason (2022) Minimal effects from injunctive norm and contentiousness treatments on COVID-19 vaccine intentions: evidence from 3 countries. PNAS Nexus, 1 (2). Article Number pgac031. ISSN 2752-6542. (doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac031) (KAR id:96880)
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Abstract
Does information about how other people feel about COVID-19 vaccination affect immunization intentions? We conducted preregistered survey experiments in Great Britain (5,456 respondents across 3 survey waves from September 2020 to February 2021), Canada (1,315 respondents in February 2021), and the state of New Hampshire in the United States (1,315 respondents in January 2021). The experiments examine the effects of providing accurate public opinion information to people about either public support for COVID-19 vaccination (an injunctive norm) or public beliefs that the issue is contentious. Across all 3 countries, exposure to this information had minimal effects on vaccination intentions even among people who previously held inaccurate beliefs about support for COVID-19 vaccination or its perceived contentiousness. These results suggest that providing information on public opinion about COVID vaccination has limited additional effect on people’s behavioral intentions when public discussion of vaccine uptake and intentions is highly salient.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac031 |
Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
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Economic and Social Research Council (https://ror.org/03n0ht308)
National Science Foundation (https://ror.org/021nxhr62) |
Depositing User: | Joe Phillips |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2022 13:35 UTC |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2024 15:02 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/96880 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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