Vaccination

Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
News
August 25, 2022

Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake

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Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process
Impact
October 19, 2021

Why Social Science? Because Vaccination is a Human—Not Technical—Process

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Resisting the Biosecurity State
News
April 29, 2021

Resisting the Biosecurity State

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The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
Public Policy
March 22, 2021

The Irrationality of Risk Calculations

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Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News

Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News

Our work in recent years has focused on how to prevent people from falling for misinformation in the first place, building on a framework from social psychology known as inoculation theory.

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Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu

The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]

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Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Behavior

Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Behavior

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the globe. From […]

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When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss

When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss

David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.

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Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

Trying to Lock Down Until COVID is Eradicated Would Be Dangerous Folly

It is possible that we could abolish death by COVID, argues Robert Dingwall, by continuing the restrictions of 2020 indefinitely – the problem, of course, is that we would simply die from something else.

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Why Does Social Science Not Bite?

Why Does Social Science Not Bite?

David Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?

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Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism

Heidi Larson on Vaccine Skepticism

As the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic increased, polling suggests counter-intuitively that resistance to a future vaccine has also risen. Anthropologist Heidi J. Larson identified several likely drivers of this, including scientists themselves.

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Social Science and Inoculation Against Vaccination Myths

Social Science and Inoculation Against Vaccination Myths

Figuring out how public health professionals can most effectively combat misinformation about the flu vaccine is a critically important question for public health research. Looking at the latest research, what is the best way to communicate this importance.

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