Dual-process theories to counter the anti-vaccination movement

Dual- Process Theories: Questions and Outstanding Issues

The goal of this paper is to offer a critical analysis of the contribution of Dual Process Theories (DPT) to psychological theory. A key advantage of DPT is that they offer an integrated framework for generalising across specific tasks and situations; this represents a clear advantage over the traditional approaches that have focussed on task-and process-specific explanations. At the same time,...

Persuasion neuroscience : New potential to test dual - process theories

The Effects of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories on Vaccination Intentions

The current studies investigated the potential impact of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs, and exposure to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, on vaccination intentions. In Study 1, British parents completed a questionnaire measuring beliefs in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and the likelihood that they would have a fictitious child vaccinated. Results revealed a significant negative relationshi...

Issues in the anti-vaccination movement in England.

ALTHOUGH criticism of the public vaccination movement in England had been common ever since it was introduced in I840, an organized movement to repeal compulsory vaccination did not develop until after 1871. If one studies the history of the English public and compulsory vaccination, one is surprised to detect references to moral and political ideas as frequently as discussions of medical issue...

A Counter-Example to Theatrical Type Theories

John Dilworth Plays, symphonies and other works in the performing arts are generally regarded, ontologically speaking, as being types, with individual performances of those works being regarded as tokens of those types. But I show that there is a logical feature of type theory which makes it impossible for such a theory to satisfactorily explain a 'double performance' case that I present: one i...