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If the last few years are an indicator, inoculation research will soon better reflect the important role of affect in inoculation’s story, and particularly, the role of affect…
January One World‽. A curated gallery of early 20th century postcards. [personal collection] J. Compton, 2021 This curated gallery of early 20th century New Year postcards offers a…
We resolve to keep looking—aware of the future challenges, but now, also aware of how we might respond to those challenges, which is certainly apt for applied inoculation…
Complex messages—including and perhaps especially those that have the trappings of a simple message, like a simple postcard—are good candidates for rhetorical scrutiny, yielding insight into where we…
Episode #49: Inoculating against persuasion with Josh Compton. Opinion Science. October 25, 2021. Josh Compton studies how “inoculating” people against persuasion can make them more resistant to arguments they…
We will go one step further with this argument: Addressing web accessibility problems can improve the health information-seeking experiences for everyone—for people with disabilities and for people without disabilities….
I’m turning to a unique case study of public communication to hopefully gain unique insights into inoculation theory. Here, the threat is fear. Josh Compton In September 2017,…
His approach worked with immunization, too, in a way that was mentionable and manageable, by paralleling some of the central tenets of inoculation theory. Josh Compton & Alicia…
Few constructs have been as touted or as contested as threat in inoculation theory. But it is important to clarify that the contested status of threat is relatively recent in…