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“societal and family responsibility was an important argument in the decision to get vaccinated among the provaccination respondents, but it was a negligible argument in the vaccination-hesitant group.” #caring
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“COVID-19 vaccine hesitant or resistant persons were distinguished… by being more self-interested, more distrusting of experts & authority figures, more likely to hold strong religious beliefs and also conspiratorial & paranoid beliefs.” @Nature 1/1
nature.com/articles/s4146…

“They were also more impulsive in their thinking style, and had a personality characterised by being more disagreeable, more emotionally unstable, and less conscientious.” @Nature 2/2
nature.com/articles/s4146…

“people high in agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability are more likely to perceive vaccination as beneficial, whereas those high in conscientiousness are also more likely to favor school-based vaccine requirement.” @BioMedCentral
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

“antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspiratorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews.” @APA
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-03…