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Severity, susceptibility, efficacy, certainty and salience: Insights from early-stage ‘vestedness’ of Midwestern populations toward the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

One option for strategically targeting components of vestedness to improve health messaging would be an applied inoculation theory-based health campaigns. Alicia Mason & Josh Compton Introduction Fear is…

How do inoculation messages work?

By advancing our understanding of the ways through which inoculation messages prepare individuals for attitudinal attacks, these findings provide important future research directions and may inform effective inoculation…

Evidence of inoculation theory in The Evidence at Large (1805): Finding an inoculation rhetorical strategy in the Preface to House of Commons’ vaccine inoculation testimony and debate

The primary argumentation strategy, this analysis offers, is inoculation, or the pairing of counterattitudinal content with refutations, thereby weakening the counterattitudinal content, that parallels the medical practice of…

Immunization communication in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Inoculation theory, health messaging, and children’s entertainment television

Inoculation, then, could be seen as both a reflection of dialogue and as dialogue in action, both interpersonally and intrapersonally. Josh Compton & alicia mason Immunization communication in Mister…

Family communication patterns, inoculation theory, and adolescent substance-abuse prevention

Inoculation-conferred resistance, family com- munication patterns, and substance abuse prevention efforts align in ways that suggest important, effective interactions. Josh Compton & Elizabeth Craig https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jftr.12328 Inoculation theory offers…

Inoculation theory and science communication

Extant work is encouraging, and timely, while consequential scientific issues are ripe for attention from an inoculation perspective. Josh Compton, Sander van der linden, john cook, & melisa…

Medieval mithridatism and/as attitudinal inoculation in popular culture

Inoculation is reflected in religious rhetoric and, I argue, medieval themes of mithridatism.  Josh Compton This presentation examines how reflections of medieval medicine in popular culture line up…

“Inoculate yourself with the word of God”: Persuasion, inoculation, medical inoculation and religious rhetoric

There is growing interest in inoculation theory as a rhetorical model of analysis. Josh Compton Copeland’s rhetoric provides a unique, informative case to consider issues of persuasion inoculation….

Inoculation theory and misremembered child car seat occupancy

We would benefit from better theory-informed health campaigns to educate and, perhaps, even inoculate.  Josh Compton Purpose: Hyperthermia is a fatal risk for children in closed vehicles. These “hot…

Belief Default Symposium at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

And in the end—this pseudo-medical treatment that takes the form of logical analysis is intended to result in more robust, more resilient knowledge structures—of a critical rebuttal of…