💡 Policy recommendations
• Framing matters. Emotional framing can backfire
• Campaigns should target recipients’ educational background
• Monitoring engagement with materials (e.g., during school meetings) can help
• Too many non-targeted campaigns can exhaust parents’ attention

⚠️ We also find that self-reported vaccination status instead of administrative records, if anything, leads to underestimating true causal effects on uptake. Good news for research settings where admin records are not available

⚙️ Mechanisms
Positive (negative) effects driven by mothers who engaged more (less) with our leaflets and displayed less (more) vaccine skepticism at baseline

📚 Education drives differences in uptake response
• Compulsory education: scientific framing increases uptake by 5.7 percentage points (7.25%)
• High school diploma: emotional framing decreases uptake by 4.8 percentage points (5.41%)

Leaflets debunk misinformation, explaining the consequences of catching HPV:
• 🧪 Scientific framing uses medical and statistical jargon
• 💔 Emotional framing uses testimonies of local survivors of HPV-caused cancers
A third control leaflet contains a reminder and no framed information

📊 Random sampling from the population and administrative vaccination records ➡️ no attrition nor survey biases in our primary analysis

🔍 We studied how the framing of info on the HPV vaccine – emotional or scientific – affects the HPV vaccine uptake across different education levels:
7616 mothers from Stockholm county, Sweden, in 4 educational strata, received a leaflet at home, imitating governmental campaigns

I had very similar thoughts this morning, then I went on to think about how this will work with the current for-profit and highly concentrated publishing industry. Sure, most is done by academics, but given how unpredictable everything has become, I sense possible dangers for free research.

The first day was a blast, started with a large scale RCT by Alice Dominici and ended with dinner at the mercato delle erbe and a drink at Pratello.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

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IMT Lucca, Italy, offers a fully funded program in neuroscience and for what I know there’s quite a few people working on neuromodulation. The application process is a bit delayed so there’s time until summer

Hi! Could you also add me? Thanks 🙏

Ahah same!

Yep, definitely! But surely entertaining and worth following, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t been discussed more given the political implications

This is all in favor of your point, btw!

I suppose this is the preach? Of course, they were far from being as secular as now, religion and faith permeated lives and society. I am just saying that compared to later periods, they did not suffocate personal (especially female!) expression as much, e.g.: chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/fabliaux

Contrary to common beliefs, medieval societies (esp 13th cent) were very informal and open in many aspects, including sexuality. Much of Middle Age stereotypes are actually 15th cent. and later (especially about religious strictness which increased sharply after the Reformation). So yes, fun stuff!

Hi Magnus, could you please add me? 🙏

Hi, can you please add me? 🙏

Yep! I have been contacted in private as well, reported it!