Immune to influence
Psychologists from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour--Helge Giese, Hans Neth, and Wolfgang Gaissmaier--provide the first rigorous look at how our attitudes towards vaccines are shaped by online forces. Turns out, social influence plays a small role.
The study by researchers from both clusters of excellence (Collective Behaviour and Politics of Inequality) reveals that our vaccine-related beliefs are so resilient that we effectively immunize ourselves to the opinions of others.
Read the full story in the University of Konstanz’s online magazine