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Inoculation theory and health: Current trends and movements

Summary: This review surveys some of the most recent findings of inoculation theory in health contexts, with special attention to applications and findings that differ in key ways…

Inoculation theory, media, and communication: Current theorizing of the inoculated news consumer

In this conceptual paper, the idea of the inoculated news consumer is revisited and expanded to consider inoculation theory and the inoculated mass communication consumer. It surveys pioneering…

Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: A conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures

Research published by Richards and Banas and Richards et al. demonstrated that an inoculation treatment given to participants prior to their exposure to a series of freedom-threatening persuasive…

Inoculation theory and sport communication

Inoculation theory is a classic theory of resistance to influence-an explanation for how positions can be made more resistant to future change through preexposure to weakened forms of…

The Devil and Vaccination and inoculation theory: Health communication, parody, and anti-vaccination rhetorical strategy

Here, an argument was advanced that taking a long historical view—in this case, considering satirical health messaging of the late 19th century—offered potential insight into modern health messaging,…

The analogy of/and inoculation theory to mental immunity

There’s still a lot to work out about this theory, but here’s what we’re thinking now: We gain a lot by keeping the analogy of inoculation theory in…

Inoculation theory and conspiracy, radicalization, and violent extremism

Inoculation theory and education, teaching, and learning

New directions for inoculation theory and affect research

Affect is one of the theoretical areas seeing the most development during the recent resurgence of inoculation theory development and application. JOSH COMPTON, BOBI IVANOV, & ERIN HESTER…

Inoculation theory

This entry examines the classic theory of resistance to influence – inoculation theory – in a health context. It provides a basic overview of the theory and descriptions…