Assessment of implicit Covid-19 attitudes using affective priming for pro-vaccine and vaccine-hesitant individuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4227900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefania S Moro (0000-0002-3678-6645, York University), Jennifer K E Steeves (0000-0002-7487-4646, York University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 1331-1344 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13591053231176261 |
| PMID | 37264609 |
| OpenAlex | W4379093283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the introduction of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions such as precautionary behaviours. The current study used affective priming to evaluate COVID-19 attitudes in vaccine-hesitant and pro-vaccine participants. Explicitly, both groups rated their overall perception of risk associated with contracting COVID-19 significantly lower compared to their perception of necessary precautions and overall adherence to public health measures. Pro-vaccine participants rated their perception of necessary precautions higher compared to vaccine-hesitant participants. During baseline measures, both groups classified COVID-19 affiliated words as unpleasant. Affective priming was observed for congruent prime-target pleasant and unpleasant word pairs but was not observed for COVID-19 related word pairs. Differences between groups in the perception of necessary public health precautions points to different underlying pathways for reduced perceived risk and lack of affective priming. These results refine previous findings indicating that implicit attitudes towards COVID-19 can be measured using the affective priming paradigm
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Pandemic · Perception · Priming (agriculture · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Risk perception · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Clinical Psychology · Internal Medicine · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |