Jab my arm, not my morality: Perceived moral reproach as a barrier to COVID-19 vaccine uptake

Daniel L. Rosenfeld and A. Janet Tomiyama

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 294, issue C

Abstract: Vaccinating the public against COVID-19 is critical for pandemic recovery, yet a large proportion of people remain unwilling to get vaccinated. Beyond known factors like perceived vaccine safety or COVID-19 risk, an overlooked sentiment contributing to vaccine hesitancy may rest in moral cognition. Specifically, we theorize that a factor fueling hesitancy is perceived moral reproach: the feeling, among unvaccinated people, that vaccinated people are judging them as immoral.

Keywords: Morality; COVID-19; Vaccine hesitancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114699

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