Countering antivaccination attitudes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10321-10324

  Horne, Zachary ^a   Powell, Derek ^b   Hummel, John E ^a   Holyoak, Keith J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Belief revision; Science education; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE SCALE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERCEPTION; RISK; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84940210598     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504019112     Document Type: Article

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