Vaccine hunters and jostlers

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Johanna Mollerstrom, George Mason University; Linda Thunstrom, University of Wyoming

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Data Followup.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 274.7 KB 09/27/2021 09:10:AM
Data Main.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 443.2 KB 09/27/2021 05:08:AM
Survey Instrument Followup.pdf application/pdf 409 KB 09/06/2021 06:34:PM
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Project Citation: 

Mollerstrom, Johanna, and Thunstrom, Linda. Vaccine hunters and jostlers. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E150081V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Desperate times call for desperate measures. But it remains unknown how private citizens’ extreme behavior to self-protect interacts with public health efforts. We conducted a survey experiment shortly after a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines were made available to prioritized groups, and examined how salience of extreme actions to gain access to vaccines affect general vaccine preferences. Learning about people who jump the line (jostlers) or people who go through great lengths to secure left-over vaccine doses (hunters) is off-putting and may have a meaningful, negative effect on people’s vaccine preferences. Most people, however, predict the opposite -- that news about extreme behavior would help the vaccination effort. If public health authorities share such beliefs, they run the risk of implementing information policies that backfire.





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