Seatbelts and raincoats, or banks and castles: Investigating the impact of vaccine metaphors.

While metaphors are frequently used to address misconceptions and hesitancy about vaccines, it is unclear how effective they are in health messaging. Using a between-subject, pretest/posttest design, we investigated the impact of explanatory metaphors on people's attitudes toward vaccines. We r...

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Main Authors: Stephen J Flusberg, Alison Mackey, Elena Semino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294739&type=printable