Beliefs about childhood vaccination in the United States: Political ideology, false consensus, and the illusion of uniqueness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Rabinowitz, Mitchell ^a   Latella, Lauren ^a   Stern, Chadly ^b   Jost, John T ^c  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDINAL DISSIMILARITY; ATTITUDINAL SIMILARITY; CHILDHOOD VACCINATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATIVE PARENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE CONSENSUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; ILLUSION OF UNIQUENESS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIBERAL PARENT; MALE; MODERATE PARENT; PARENT; PERCEPTION; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC COMMUNICATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VACCINATION;

EID: 84979502828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158382     Document Type: Article

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