One of the many established predictors of conspiracy beliefs is reflective thinking, but no
meta-analysis so far has examined this relationship. In the current meta-analysis of …

Research on the drivers of vaccine acceptance has expanded but most interventions fall
short of coverage targets. We explored whether vaccine uptake is driven directly or indirectly …

Conspiracy mentality is a general tendency to attribute significant events to the actions of
malevolent actors, without referencing to a specific event. In two independent representative …

Ziel Die Studie untersucht die Impfbereitschaft mit einem COVID-19-Vakzin an einer
Zufallsstichprobe der Gesamtbevölkerung und deren Determinanten (wahrgenommene …

Objective: People likely have different attitudes toward different vaccines (eg, they may hold
a positive attitude toward the measles, mumps, and rubella-vaccine while simultaneously …

Background Vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to infectious disease control. Previous
studies showed high rates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Middle East. The current …

Given the pervasiveness and dangers of misinformation, there has been a surge of research
dedicated to uncovering predictors of and interventions for misinformation receptivity. One …

Over the past decades, vaccination has proven to be largely beneficial to global health.
Despite vaccine efficacy, the French population has been recently affected by more anti …

Introduction: The present study adapted the Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (VCBS)
developed by Shapiro and colleagues (2016) in the specific context of COVID-19 and …

The growing scientific interest in conspiracy beliefs calls for validated measures of
conspiracy mentality, the tendency to believe any conspiracy theory. In this study, we …