JIU-JITSU WITH MISINFORMATION IN THE AGE OF COVID: USING REFUTATION-BASED LEARNING TO ENHANCE VACCINE UPTAKE AND KNOWLEDGE AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC

Research output

Research output per year 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 27 Article (Academic Journal)
• 1 Article (Specialist Publication)

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2025

  Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

  Smith, F., Simchon, A., Holford, D. & Lewandowsky, S., 26 Jan 2025, In: Communications Psychology. 3, 13 p., 11.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

• The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities

  Abels, C. M., Lopez-Lopez, E., Burton, J. W., Holford, D., Brinkmann, L. & Lewandowsky, S., 6 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavioral Science & Policy.

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  Open Access

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications 60%
  • User Preference 20%
  • Risk Mitigation 20%
  • Misinformation 20%
• 2024

  Association of the belief in conspiracy narratives with vaccination status and recommendation behaviours of German physicians

  Taubert, F., Schmid, P., Holford, D., Verger , P., Fasce, A., Karlsson, L. C., Soveri, A., Lewandowsky, S. & Betsch, C., 9 Oct 2024, In: Vaccine: X. 20, 8 p., 100560.

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  • Narrative 100%
  • Vaccine Hesitancy 60%
  • Coronavirinae 60%
  • COVID-19 Vaccination 60%
  • COVID-19 40%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  20 Downloads (Pure)

• Difficulties faced by physicians from four European countries in rebutting anti-vaccination arguments: A cross-sectional study

  Holford, D., Schmid, P., Fasce, A., Garrison, A., Karlsson, L., Taubert, F., Verger , P., Lewandowsky, S., Fisher, H., Betsch, C., Rodrigues, F. & Soveri, A., 13 Mar 2024, In: BMJ Public Health. 2, 1, 12 p., e000195.

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  Open Access

  • Cross-Sectional Study 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Diseases 50%
  • Finland 50%
  • Portugal 50%

• Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of challenges in vaccine communication and training needs: a qualitative study

  Holford, D., Anderson, E. C., Biswas, A., Garrison, A., Fisher, H., Brosset, E., Gould, V. C., Verger , P. & Lewandowsky, S., 20 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMC Primary Care . 25, 21 p., 264.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Qualitative Study 100%
  • Healthcare Professional 100%
  • Health Care Personnel 100%
  • Communication Skill 100%
  • Semistructured Interview 9%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Identifying the underlying psychological constructs from self-expressed anti-vaccination argumentation

  Holford, D., Lopez-Lopez, E., Fasce, A., Karlsson, L. C. & Lewandowsky, S., 17 Jul 2024, In: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications . 11, 926.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Psychological Construct 100%
  • Argumentation 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Practitioners 33%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Testing psychological inoculation to reduce reactance to vaccine-related communication

  Karlsson, L. C., Maki, K. O., Holford, D., Fasce, A., Schmid , P., Lewandowsky, S. & Soveri, A., 1 Nov 2024, In: Health Communication. 39, 13, p. 3450-3458 9 p.

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  • Negative Emotion 100%
  • Facebook 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• The Empathetic Refutational Interview to tackle vaccine misconceptions: Four randomized experiments

  Holford, D., Schmid, P., Fasce, A. & Lewandowsky, S., 1 Jun 2024, In: Health Psychology. 43, 6, p. 426-437 12 p.

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  • Healthcare Professional 100%
  • Empathy 20%
  • Psychology 20%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Tracking the development of COVID-19-related PsyArXiv preprints

  Wulf, M., Yesilada, M., Holford, D., Abels, C. M., Radosevic, M., Stuchly, E., Taylor, K., Ye, S., Saxena, G., El-Halaby, G., Herzog, S., Lewandowsky, S. & Hahn, U., 31 Jul 2024, In: Collabra: Psychology. 10, 1, 15 p., 121378.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Open Science 100%

• Vaccination mandates and their alternatives and complements

  Schmid, P., Böhm, R., Das, E., Holford, D., Lewandowsky, S., Betsch, C. & al., E., 4 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Reviews Psychology. 3, 12, p. 789-803 15 p.

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  • Psychological Effect 100%
  • Psychological Science 50%
  • Psychology 50%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  144 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

  Fasce, A., Schmid, P., Holford, D., Bates, L., Gurevych, I. & Lewandowsky, S., 17 Jul 2023, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 7, 9, p. 1462-1480 19 p.

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  • COVID-19 100%
  • Thematic Analysis 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Preregistered 50%
  36 Citations (Scopus)

  193 Downloads (Pure)

• Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A cross-sectional study in four European countries

  Fasce, A., Karlsson, L., Verger, P., Mäki, K. O., Taubert, F., Amanda, C., Schmid, P., Holford, D. L., Lewandowsky, S., Rodrigues, F., Betsch, C. & Soveri, A., 1 Aug 2023, In: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 19, 2, 2242748.

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  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Psychological profiles of anti-vaccination argument endorsement

  Holford, D., Fasce, A., Costello, T. H. & Lewandowsky, S., 17 Jul 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 1, 12 p., 11219.

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  • Psychological Construct 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Individual Differences 50%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for Implementation

  Holford, D., Fasce, A., Tapper, K., Demko, M., Lewandowsky, S., Hahn, U., Abels, C. M., Al-Rawi, A., Alladin, S. & et, A., 4 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science Communication. 45, 4, p. 539-554 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Collective Intelligence 100%
  • Science Communication 100%
  • Misinformation 100%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Spillover effects of the COVID‑19 pandemic on attitudes to influenza and childhood vaccines

  Soveri, A., Karlsson, L. C., Antfolk, J., Mäki, O., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., Nolvi, S., Karukivi, M., Lindfelt, M. & Lewandowsky, S., 25 Apr 2023, In: BMC Public Health. 23, 1, 12 p., 764.

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  • Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine 100%
  • Disease 100%
  • Pandemic 100%
  • Attitude 100%
  • COVID-19 100%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Tailoring interventions to suit self-reported format preference does not decrease vaccine hesitancy

  Maki, K. O., Karlsson, L., Kaakinen, J. K., Schmid, P., Lewandowsky, S., Antfolk, J. & Soveri, A., 21 Mar 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 3, e0283030.

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  Open Access

  • COVID-19 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  A call for immediate action to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake to prepare for the third pandemic winter

  Betsch, C., Schmid, P., Verger , P., Lewandowsky, S., Soveri, A., Hertwig, R., Fasce, A., Holford, D., De Raeve, P., Gagneur, A., Vuolanto, P. & et, A., 6 Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, p. 1-6 7511.

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  • Health Care 100%
  • COVID-19 100%
  • COVID-19 Vaccination 100%
  • Health Care Personnel 100%
  • Healthcare 100%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  74 Downloads (Pure)

• An instrument to measure psychosocial determinants of health care professionals’ vaccination behavior: Validation of the Pro-VC-Be questionnaire

  Verger , P., Soveri, A., Dauby, N., Fasce, A., Karlsson, L. C., Lewandowsky, S., Schmid , P., Dubé, E., Gagneur, A. & Fressard, L., 3 Mar 2022, In: Expert Review of Vaccines. 21, 5, p. 693-709 17 p.

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  • Healthcare Professional 100%
  • Determinants of Health 100%
  • Health Care Personnel 100%
  • Criterion Validity 28%
  • Criterion Related Validity 28%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

  126 Downloads (Pure)

• Believing in nothing and believing in everything: The underlying cognitive paradox of anti-COVID-19 vaccine attitudes

  Newman, D., Lewandowsky, S. & Mayo, R., 1 Apr 2022, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 189, 111522.

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  • Mindset 100%
  • Individual Ability 50%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

  29 Downloads (Pure)

• Measuring psychosocial determinants of vaccination behavior in healthcare professionals: Validation of the Pro-VC-Be short-form questionnaire

  Garrison, A., Fressard, L., Karlsson, L., Soveri, A., Fasce, A., Lewandowsky, S., Schmid , P., Gagneur, A., Dubé, E. & Verger , P., 8 Aug 2022, In: Expert Review of Vaccines. 21, 10, p. 1505-1514 10 p.

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  • Health Service 100%
  • Health Care 100%
  • Health Professionals 100%
  • Health Practitioner 100%
  • Health Care Personnel 100%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  78 Downloads (Pure)

• Prebunking messaging to inoculate against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: An effective strategy for public health

  Vivion , M., Anassour Laouan Sidi, E., Betsch, C., Dionne, M., Dubé, E., Driedger , S. M., Gagnon, D., Graham, J., Greyson, D., Hamel , D., Lewandowsky, S., MacDonald, N., Malo , B., Meyer , S. B., Schmid , P., Steenbeek, A., van der Linden, S., Verger , P., Witteman , H. O. & Yesilada, M., 4 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health. 15, 3, p. 232-242 12 p.

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  • Misinformation 100%
  • Nutrition Policy 100%
  • Public Health 100%
  • Canadians 66%
  • Regression Analysis 50%
  33 Citations (Scopus)

  613 Downloads (Pure)

• Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

  Roozenbeek, J., Van Der Linden, S., Goldberg, B., Rathje, S. & Lewandowsky, S., 24 Aug 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 34, 11 p., eabo6254.

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  • Psychology 100%
  • Preregistered 66%
  • YouTube 33%
  • Field Study 33%
  202 Citations (Scopus)

  414 Downloads (Pure)

• Public policy and conspiracies: The case of mandates

  Lewandowsky, S., Holford, D. & Schmid, P., 20 Jul 2022, In: Current Opinion in Psychology. 47, 101427.

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  • Public Health 100%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

  89 Downloads (Pure)

• Systematic review: YouTube recommendations and problematic content

  Yesilada, M. & Lewandowsky, S., 31 Mar 2022, In: Internet Policy Review. 11, 1, 22 p.

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  • Systematic Review 100%
  • YouTube 100%
  • Radicalisation 14%
  42 Citations (Scopus)

  237 Downloads (Pure)

• The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

  Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N., Kendeou, P., Vraga, E. K. & Amazeen, M. A., 12 Jan 2022, In: Nature Reviews Psychology. 1, p. 13–29 (2022) 17 p.

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  • Psychology 100%
  • Referendum 50%
  • Consumer Information 50%
  • COVID 19 Epidemic 50%
  • Elections 50%
  720 Citations (Scopus)

  2001 Downloads (Pure)

• When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict: Recognizing the Public’s Need for Debate while Combating Conspiracies and Misinformation

  Lewandowsky, S., Armaos, K. D., Bruns, H., Schmid, P., Holford, D. L., Hahn, U., Al-Rawi, A., Sah, S. & Cook, J., 5 May 2022, In: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 700, 1, p. 26-40 15 p.

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  • Conspiracy 100%
  • Lived Experience 100%
  • scrutiny 50%
  • Dissemination 50%
  • Denial 50%
  22 Citations (Scopus)

  178 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Worldview-motivated rejection of science and the norms of science

  Lewandowsky, S. & Oberauer, K., 1 Oct 2021, In: Cognition. 215, 104820.

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  • Political Left 100%
  • Heritability 100%
  • Communism 50%
  • Human Development 50%
  • USA 50%
  37 Citations (Scopus)

  370 Downloads (Pure)