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The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations (2024)
Journal Article
Barnfield, M., Phillips, J., Stoeckel, F., Lyons, B., Szewach, P., Thompson, J., Stöckli, S., Mérola, V., & Reifler, J. (in press). The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations. Public Opinion Quarterly,

Quantitative forecasts have become increasingly prominent as tools for aiding public understanding of socio-political trends. But how much, and what, do people learn from quantitative forecasts? In this note, we showthrough a pre-registered survey ex... Read More about The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations.

When experts matter: Variations in consensus messaging for vaccine and genetically modified organism safety (2023)
Journal Article
Lyons, B. A., Mérola, V., Reifler, J., Spälti, A. K., Stedtnitz, C., & Stoeckel, F. (2024). When experts matter: Variations in consensus messaging for vaccine and genetically modified organism safety. Public Understanding of Science, 33(2), 210-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231188594

Does consensus messaging about contested science issues influence perceptions of consensus and/or personal beliefs? This question remains open, particularly for topics other than climate change and samples outside the United States. In a Spanish nati... Read More about When experts matter: Variations in consensus messaging for vaccine and genetically modified organism safety.

Public perceptions and misperceptions of political authority in the European Union (2023)
Journal Article
Stoeckel, F., Mérola, V., Thompson, J., Lyons, B., & Reifler, J. (2024). Public perceptions and misperceptions of political authority in the European Union. European Union Politics, 25(1), 42-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165231193833

How do citizens understand political authority within multi-level systems? We use original survey data from six European Union member states to assess the roles of political identity and interest in shaping citizen attitudes towards political authori... Read More about Public perceptions and misperceptions of political authority in the European Union.

Correlates of support for international vaccine solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional survey evidence from Germany (2023)
Journal Article
Stoeckel, F., Thompson, J., Szewach, P., Stöckli, S., Barnfield, M., Phillips, J. B., …Reifler, J. (2023). Correlates of support for international vaccine solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional survey evidence from Germany. PLoS ONE, 18(6), Article e0287257. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287257

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many residents of high-income countries (HICs) were eligible for COVID-19 vaccine boosters, while many residents of lower-income countries (LICs) had not yet received a first dose. HICs made some efforts to contribute to... Read More about Correlates of support for international vaccine solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional survey evidence from Germany.

Vaccine attributes and vaccine uptake in Hungary: evidence from a conjoint experiment (2023)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., Stöckli, S., Spälti, A. K., Phillips, J., Stoeckel, F., Barnfield, M., …Reifler, J. (2023). Vaccine attributes and vaccine uptake in Hungary: evidence from a conjoint experiment. European Journal of Public Health, 33(3), 476-481. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad043

Background
In an ongoing public health crisis, the question of why some people are unwilling to take vaccines with particular attributes is an especially pertinent one, since low rates of vaccination mean that it will take longer for many nations to... Read More about Vaccine attributes and vaccine uptake in Hungary: evidence from a conjoint experiment.

Stamping the vaccine passport? Public support for lifting COVID-19 related restrictions for vaccinated citizens in France, Germany, and Sweden (2022)
Journal Article
Stoeckel, F., Stöckli, S., Phillips, J., Lyons, B., Mérola, V., Barnfield, M., Szewach, P., Thompson, J., & Reifler, J. (2022). Stamping the vaccine passport? Public support for lifting COVID-19 related restrictions for vaccinated citizens in France, Germany, and Sweden. Vaccine, 40(38), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.009

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented restrictions to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (e.g. travel restrictions and lockdowns). One path to loosening restrictions is to do so selectively only for vaccinated individuals (e.... Read More about Stamping the vaccine passport? Public support for lifting COVID-19 related restrictions for vaccinated citizens in France, Germany, and Sweden.

Which vaccine attributes foster vaccine uptake? A cross-country conjoint experiment (2022)
Journal Article
Stöckli, S., Spälti, A. K., Phillips, J., Stoeckel, F., Barnfield, M., Thompson, J., Lyons, B., Mérola, V., Szewach, P., & Reifler, J. (2022). Which vaccine attributes foster vaccine uptake? A cross-country conjoint experiment. PLoS ONE, 17(5), e0266003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266003

Why do people prefer one particular COVID-19 vaccine over another? We conducted a pre-registered conjoint experiment (n = 5,432) in France, Germany, and Sweden in which respondents rated the favorability of and chose between pairs of hypothetical COV... Read More about Which vaccine attributes foster vaccine uptake? A cross-country conjoint experiment.