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Resistance to Persuasion: Examining the Influence of Political Ideology on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Hesitancy

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the death of over 625,000 Americans and it continues to have monumental consequences worldwide for economic, social and individual life.
Nancy H. Brinson
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Prebunking Against Misinformation in the Modern Digital Age

, 2023
Traberg CS, Harjani T, Basol M, Biddlestone M, Maertens R, Roozenbeek J, van der Linden S.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Building awareness: Introducing education about blood-product donation in the school curriculum. [PDF]

Transfusion
Transfusion, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 750-757, April 2025.
Ciaușescu A, Schröder JM, van Hooff L, Merz EM.   +3 more
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How the European Commission can use behavioural insights to combat misinformation [PDF]

, 2023
→ To fight misinformation, policymakers can use debunking (exposing misinformation and explaining why it is false) and prebunking (training people to recognise misinformation and defend themselves against it).
BRUNS Hendrik, DESSART François J., KRAWCZYK Michal Wiktor, SMILLIE Laura   +3 more
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Between resistance and adaptation in COVID-19 times: The outbreak daily prevalence moderates the association between conspiracy thinking and adherence to government protocols. [PDF]

Br J Health Psychol
Abstract Objectives Conspiracy thinking has played a significant role in shaping public responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic and has influenced citizens' adherence to government protocols, including reluctance to receive vaccination and adherence to public health measures.
Roccato M, Russo S, Mancosu M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation.

British Journal of Psychology, 2021
Psychological research has offered valuable insights into how to combat misinformation. The studies conducted to date, however, have three limitations.
L. Tay, Mark J. Hurlstone, T. Kurz, Ullrich K. H. Ecker   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Social Reference Cues on Misinformation Sharing on Social Media: Series of Experimental Studies

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023
BackgroundHealth-related misinformation on social media is a key challenge to effective and timely public health responses. Existing mitigation measures include flagging misinformation or providing links to correct information ...
Christopher M Jones, Daniel Diethei, Johannes Schöning, Rehana Shrestha, Tina Jahnel, Benjamin Schüz   +5 more
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Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective [PDF]

, 2023
In this paper, we critically consider the analogy between “infodemic” and “pandemic”, i.e. the spread of fake news about COVID-19 as a medial virus and the infection with the biological virus itself from the perspective of cultural evolutionary theory ...
Baraghith, Karim, Häusler, Lara
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On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy.

PLoS ONE, 2022
At the time of writing, nearly one hundred published studies demonstrate that beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation are negatively associated with COVID-19 preventive behaviors.
Adam M Enders, Joseph Uscinski, Casey Klofstad, Justin Stoler   +3 more
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Fighting Disinformation: How to Measure the Impact of Pre- and Debunking on Dutch Primary School Children’s Media Literacy?

Societies
To empower citizens against disinformation in a sustainable way, teaching media literacy is important, especially among young children, enabling them to use this competence throughout their lifetime.
Pascale Verhalle, Eugėne Loos
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