It can be hard to see eye to eye when people don’t see risk the same way. Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images August 12, 2021 Emotion is a big part of how you assess risk – and why it’s so hard to be objective about pandemic precautions Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign How you respond to a risk depends on how you weigh the costs and benefits of an action. The problem is you’re not just a logical computer, and emotions bias your interpretation of the facts.
Shutterstock July 28, 2021 Vaccine selfies may seem trivial, but they show people doing their civic duty — and probably encourage others too Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania; Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology, and Martin Grimmer, University of Tasmania Are vaxxies just the latest trend in virtue signalling? And even if they are, does that mean they’re not worth it?
A 1975 stamp printed in St. Vincent shows U.S. presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who were all vocally pro-inoculation and vaccination. (Shutterstock) January 17, 2021 The U.S. Founding Fathers would want us to get the COVID-19 vaccine Jason Opal, McGill University In the early years of the United States, several American presidents were in favour of public health inoculation and vaccination strategies.