Why are some people hesitant about being vaccinated?

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While researchers are fairly pessimistic about convincing anti-vaxxers to change their minds and get a COVID-19 vaccine, they recommend focusing efforts on people who are undecided about vaccination.

Researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Wroclaw, Poland have analyzed the discourse of individuals who declared themselves opposed to vaccination. Published in the journal Social Psychological Bulletin, the study, conducted online via a questionnaire, was based on an initial panel of 3,000 Polish inhabitants representative of the population.

"Results indicate that individuals who declared a negative experience with vaccination were persuaded by all types of anti-vaccine arguments," the study outlined."Moreover, pre-existing anti-vaccine skepticism may cause individuals to interpret negative symptoms as consequences of vaccines, further reinforcing the negative attitude.

This could be related to confirmation bias, which refers to an "individual actively seeking information consistent with their pre-existing hypothesis," the researchers explain, a process that then reinforces their beliefs.Participants who were classed as "ambiguous" on the subject "were mostly confident in the efficacy of vaccines, as well as them being properly researched," the study found.

 

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