How heuristics and cognitive biases affect vaccination decisions

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ID5167153
AuthorsPaula M Luz (0000-0001-9746-719X, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Paulo Nadanovsky (0000-0003-3345-9873, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Julie Leask (0000-0001-5095-1443, The University of Sydney)
Year2020
Volume36
Issuesuppl 2
Pagese00136620-e00136620
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311x00136620
PMID33237198
OpenAlexW3109212007
SciELOS0102-311X2020001405006
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited43

Immunization, the most successful public health intervention to date, can only be effective if eligible individuals or their legal representatives have access to vaccines and subsequently comply with their use. Under-vaccination stems from multiple causes: access, affordability, awareness, acceptance and activation. In this paper, we focus on acceptance and, specifically, on factors pertaining to individual or parental compliance, specifically the psychology of judgment and decision making. We describe how heuristics and cognitive biases - a facet of thoughts and feelings - affect vaccination decision making. Additionally, we address when and how social processes play a role and how attitudes towards vaccines might reflect a more general underlying attitude or ideology. The understanding of how decision making, with regards to vaccines occurs, and the role played by heuristics and cognitive biases can help inform more appropriate public health interventions

Affect (linguistics) · Cognition · Feeling · Heuristics · Intervention (counseling) · Psychological intervention · Vaccination · Computer Science · Immunology · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

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