This article reviews the current state of knowledge and promising new directions concerning
the psychology of pandemics. Pandemics are disease outbreaks that spread globally …

Objectives: Successful immunization programs require strategic communication to increase
confidence among individuals who are vaccine-hesitant. This paper reviews research on …

The use of survey experiments has surged in political science. The most common design is
the between-subjects design in which the outcome is only measured posttreatment. This …

Clusters of unvaccinated children are particularly susceptible to outbreaks of vaccine-
preventable disease,. Existing messaging interventions demonstrate short-term success, but …

Vaccine safety skeptics are often thought to be more likely to self-identify as Democrats (vs.
Independents or Republicans). Recent studies, however, suggest that childhood vaccine …

Despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines are safe and effective, there has been a rise
in vaccine hesitancy and refusal leading to increases in the incidence of communicable …

Abstract Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has posed an unprecedented public health
challenge for most countries, and the repeated outbreaks of this disease have created a …

Immigrants, as a group, are frequently described in ways, such as vermin or disease, that
portray them as less than human. This type of dehumanizing language leads to negative …

As the world continues to respond to the spread of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, which
causes the disease commonly known as COVID-19), it has become clear that one of the …

Do images affect online political mobilization? If so, how? These questions are of
fundamental importance to scholars of social movements, contentious politics, and political …