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. 2021 Mar 30;118(13):e2026745118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2026745118.

Vaccination as a social contract: The case of COVID-19 and US political partisanship

Ori Weisel  1
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Vaccination as a social contract: The case of COVID-19 and US political partisanship

Ori Weisel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Mean changes in generosity as a function of political affiliation, other’s group membership, other’s vaccination decision, and participant’s vaccination decision. Error bars represent 95% CIs; n = 185. Nonvaccinated participants (gray symbols) do not change their generosity based on the other’s vaccination behavior or group membership. Vaccinated participants (black symbols) condition their generosity on the other’s vaccination behavior, adhering to the “vaccination as a social contract” hypothesis: They reduce their generosity toward nonvaccinated others (solid error bars) compared to vaccinated others (dash-dotted error bars). This effect does not depend on group membership. Adapted from ref. , which is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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  • Vaccination as a social contract.
    Korn L, Böhm R, Meier NW, Betsch C. Korn L, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jun 30;117(26):14890-14899. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919666117. Epub 2020 Jun 15. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020. PMID: 32541033 Free PMC article.

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