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Abstract
This study investigates the factors contributing to COVID vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been attributed to susceptibility to misinformation and linked to particular socio-demographic factors and personality traits. We present a new perspective, emphasizing the interplay between individual cognitive styles and perceptions of public health institutions. In January 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, 318 participants underwent a comprehensive assessment, including self-report measures of personality and clinical characteristics, as well as a behavioral task that assessed information processing styles. During 2021, attitudes towards vaccines, scientists, and the CDC were measured at three time points (February–October). Panel data analysis and structural equation modeling revealed nuanced relationships between these measures and information processing styles over time. Trust in public health institutions, authoritarian submission, and lower information processing capabilities together contribute to vaccine acceptance. Information processing capacities influenced vaccination decisions independently from the trust level, but their impact was partially mediated by authoritarian tendencies. These findings underscore the multifactorial nature of vaccine hesitancy, which emerges as a product of interactions between individual cognitive styles and perceptions of public health institutions. This novel perspective provides valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms that drive this complex phenomenon.
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1 Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 8710)
2 Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000000419368710)
3 Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 8710); Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000000419368710); Yale University, Wu Tsai Institute, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 8710)
4 Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 8710); Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000000419368710); Yale University, Wu Tsai Institute, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 8710); Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000000419368710); Yale School of Medicine, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health, New Haven, USA (GRID:grid.47100.32) (ISNI:0000000419368710)