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Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Are Linked: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Survey Study

Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Are Linked: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Survey Study

The main COVID-19 misinformation narratives encompassed a wide range of claims, including the pandemic being a hoax, the assertion that the virus is not dangerous or was artificially developed, and the belief that vaccines are harmful, while PCR tests, face masks, and other preventive measures against COVID-19 pandemic are ineffective [14].

Dominika Grygarová, Marek Havlík, Petr Adámek, Jiří Horáček, Veronika Juríčková, Jaroslav Hlinka, Ladislav Kesner

JMIR Infodemiology 2025;5:e62913

Identifying Population Segments by Differing Levels of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Evaluating Subsequent Uptake of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors: Web-Based, Longitudinal, Probability-Based Panel Survey

Identifying Population Segments by Differing Levels of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Evaluating Subsequent Uptake of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors: Web-Based, Longitudinal, Probability-Based Panel Survey

A total of 7 variables assessed general views about the COVID-19 pandemic—belief in misinformation, indifference to and anxiety related to COVID-19, information burnout, effectiveness of recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors, hopefulness that the United States will get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, and whether respondents knew people who had been hospitalized for or had died from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joseph Luchman, Morgane Bennett, Elissa Kranzler, Rugile Tuskeviciute, Ronald Vega, Benjamin Denison, Sarah Trigger, Tyler Nighbor, Monica Vines, Leah Hoffman

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e56044

Sadness-Based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training for Subjective Stress in Adults: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Sadness-Based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training for Subjective Stress in Adults: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

For complex stimuli requiring more conscious cognitive processing (such as written statements), cognitive dissonance [34] might be a second working mechanism of AAMTs—pulling a functional belief toward oneself might generate cognitive dissonance if the belief is not shared by the participant. As participants continuously have to pull functional beliefs toward themselves, they might experience a dissonance-driven pressure to share the functional belief.

Lydia Helene Rupp, Marie Keinert, Stephanie Böhme, Lena Schindler-Gmelch, Bjoern Eskofier, Björn Schuller, Matthias Berking

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e50324

Utility of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study

Utility of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study

One possibility is that people tend to form friendships and social connections to those who share similar belief systems [12,19]. This could suggest that two counties with a greater likelihood of sharing Facebook friendships means residents of those counties have a higher likelihood of sharing similar belief systems, in particular as they relate to COVID-19 and public health practices.

Beth Prusaczyk, Kathryn Pietka, Joshua M Landman, Douglas A Luke

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(12):e33617

Patterns of Media Use, Strength of Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, and the Prevention of COVID-19 From March to July 2020 in the United States: Survey Study

Patterns of Media Use, Strength of Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, and the Prevention of COVID-19 From March to July 2020 in the United States: Survey Study

A national probability sample of the US population in March and again in July of 2020 [18] found that belief in any one of the conspiracies was highly related to belief in the others and that those beliefs were stable over time. Furthermore, belief in a composite of the three conspiracies in March predicted unwillingness in July to obtain a vaccine for the virus should one become available.

Daniel Romer, Kathleen Hall Jamieson

J Med Internet Res 2021;23(4):e25215