Making sense of unfamiliar COVID-19 vaccines: How national origin affects vaccination willingness
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Making sense of unfamiliar COVID-19 vaccines : How national origin affects vaccination willingness. / Jensen, Eric A.; Wagoner, Brady; Pfleger, Axel; Herbig, Lisa; Watzlawik, Meike.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 16, e0261273, 12.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Making sense of unfamiliar COVID-19 vaccines
T2 - How national origin affects vaccination willingness
AU - Jensen, Eric A.
AU - Wagoner, Brady
AU - Pfleger, Axel
AU - Herbig, Lisa
AU - Watzlawik, Meike
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Jensen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Vaccination willingness is a critical factor in pandemics, including the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, investigating underlying drivers of vaccination willingness/hesitancy is an essential social science contribution. The present study of German residents investigates the mental shortcuts people are using to make sense of unfamiliar vaccine options by examining vaccination willingness for different vaccines using an experimental design in a quantitative survey. German vaccines were preferred over equivalent foreign vaccines, and the favorability ratings of foreign countries where COVID-19 vaccines were developed correlated with the level of vaccination willingness for each vaccine. The patterns in vaccination willingness were more pronounced when the national origin was shown along with the vaccine manufacturer label. The study shows how non-scientific factors drive everyday decision-making about vaccination. Taking such social psychological and communication aspects into account in the design of vaccination campaigns would increase their effectiveness.
AB - Vaccination willingness is a critical factor in pandemics, including the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, investigating underlying drivers of vaccination willingness/hesitancy is an essential social science contribution. The present study of German residents investigates the mental shortcuts people are using to make sense of unfamiliar vaccine options by examining vaccination willingness for different vaccines using an experimental design in a quantitative survey. German vaccines were preferred over equivalent foreign vaccines, and the favorability ratings of foreign countries where COVID-19 vaccines were developed correlated with the level of vaccination willingness for each vaccine. The patterns in vaccination willingness were more pronounced when the national origin was shown along with the vaccine manufacturer label. The study shows how non-scientific factors drive everyday decision-making about vaccination. Taking such social psychological and communication aspects into account in the design of vaccination campaigns would increase their effectiveness.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0261273
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0261273
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34965278
AN - SCOPUS:85122020921
VL - 16
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
M1 - e0261273
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