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Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: A field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour (2020)
Journal Article
Isler, O., Isler, B., Kopsacheilis, O., & Ferguson, E. (2020). Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: A field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour. BMC Public Health, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8246-3

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Influenza vaccine uptake remains low worldwide, inflicting substantial costs to public health. Messages promoting social welfare have been shown to increase vaccination intentions, and it has been recommended that he... Read More about Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: A field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour.

The role of information search and its influence on risk preferences (2017)
Journal Article
Kopsacheilis, O. (in press). The role of information search and its influence on risk preferences. Theory and Decision, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-017-9623-y

According to the ‘Description–Experience gap’ (DE gap), when people are provided with the descriptions of risky prospects they make choices as if they overweight the probability of rare events; but when making decisions from experience after explorin... Read More about The role of information search and its influence on risk preferences.