Who fears the HPV vaccine, who doesn’t, and why? An experimental study of the mechanisms of cultural cognition.
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The cultural cognition thesis holds that individuals form risk perceptions that reflect their commitments to contested views of the good society. We conducted a study that used the dispute over mandatory HPV vaccination to test the cultural cognition thesis. Although public health officials have recommended that all girls aged 11 or 12 be vaccinated for HPV-a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer-political controversy has blocked adoption of mandatory school-enrollment vaccination programs in all but one state. An experimental study of a large sample of American adults (N = 1,538) found that cultural cognition generates disagreement about the risks and benefits of the vaccine through two mechanisms: biased assimilation, and the credibility heuristic. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.
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The different polarity of the associations with vaccination is consonant with the notion that libertarians object to the government intrusion arising from mandatory vaccination programs, whereas people low on conservatism may oppose immunization because they distrust pharmaceutical companies.
“The different polarity of those associations is consonant with the notion that libertarians object to the government intrusion arising from mandatory vaccination programs [15], whereas people low on conservatism—who, by implication, are liberal or progressive—may oppose immunization because they distrust pharmaceutical companies [40].”
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- Authors
- Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Cohen, G. L., Gastil, J., & Slovic, P.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Venue
- Law and Human Behavior
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 501-516
- ISSN
- 0147-7307 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-661X
- OpenAlex
- W2119950659
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 18.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- papers.ssrn.com
- Locations
- Law and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Keywords
- cultural cognition, HPV vaccine, mandatory vaccination, risk perception, biased assimilation, cervical cancer prevention, political conflict, public health policy, vaccine hesitancy
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Culture, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Perception, United States, Risk Assessment, Mandatory Programs, Papillomavirus Vaccines
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