Unvaccinated white evangelicals appear immune to pro-vaccine messaging (All others cave to the media)

Medical XPress / Yale University / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ^ | Nov. 30, 2021 | Scott E. Bokemper et al

[ConservativeMind]

White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots has only gotten more difficult.

"At this point, unvaccinated white evangelicals seem resistant to messaging aimed at persuading them of the benefits of being vaccinated against COVID-19," said Gregory A. Huber, the Forst Family Professor of Political Science in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a co-author of the study. "It's not clear whether this is because resistance to vaccination among white evangelicals has increased over time or that the current holdouts were always the least persuadable. What is clear is that messaging that was effective last fall, before vaccines were approved, now seems ineffective."

The initial survey, fielded on a nationally representative sample of 855 white evangelicals, gauged how various messages affected white evangelicals' intentions to get vaccinated, their willingness to advise a friend to get the shots, and their judgments of people who refuse the vaccine. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of seven conditions: A placebo message unrelated to COVID-19, a baseline message about vaccine efficacy, or five treatment messages that added specific content to that baseline.

…Neither survey showed that values-based messaging was successful at persuading white evangelicals to get vaccinated, contrasting with prior research that has found that values-consistent messaging increased positive attitudes towards masking among members of the same group.

"This study highlights the importance of testing and re-testing messages as the people requiring persuasion changes over time," said Scott E. Bokemper.

[bella1]

And sadly, most of them are conservative in their political views, or were anyways. Not many dead liberals, they seem to be vaxxed.

[MayflowerMadam]

You’re right.

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 in

And, we WILL be persecuted; it’s predicted in Scripture.

[Steve_Seattle]

Your local hospital sounds like a piece of crap if it’s losing that many people.

[bella1]

One of the top in the nation. Unfortunately several died at home refusing to believe they were that sick...very sad funeral. Others waited too long refusing to believe they were that sick..again, very sad.

[Albion Wilde]

And most of the sheeple will swallow the great lie when the same evangelicals suddenly disappear!

My denomination doesn't believe in "the rapture." But... this looks like a set-up for it.

[Jim Noble]

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken

[ConservativeMind]

I was just restating what the study author found out.

All other demographics were swayable.

[Albion Wilde]

They were not focusing on blacks and hispanics—who are the most anti-vaxx groups in almost all locations.

I read here on FR that the most covid-vaxx-hesitant people are PhDs, a group least likely to be other than white. They, like evangelicals, are after actual truth.

Perhaps unlike some evangelicals, PhDs can easily read the scientific papers and draw their own conclusions; whereas evangelicals have access to the oldest and best wireless network, prayer and divine revelation, as to whether the vaccine is right for them in their individual situation.

[Albion Wilde]

tithing was for the Jews.

What a silly thing to say.

[Albion Wilde]

I know many people who are neither white or evangelical Christian that do NOT want the vax.

When I went to my physician's office recently, a black nurse did the intake, and asked me if I wanted the clotshot. I said no, and she pursed her lips as if to keep them silent, while her body language said, "I've got no problem with that." Then I went to see the white female physician with little round John Lennon glasses and green streaks in her hair and got a raft of disapproval of my choice, pro-vacks propaganda and an outright lie about "the science." I'm considering changing providers.

[MHGinTN]

As an individual, you should look deeper into the issue. Jesus introduced the idea in John 14, Paul elaborated on it in 1 Thess4:13-18 and 2 Thess 2, then more in 1 Corinthians 15:51-58. The third chapter of The Revelation ends with The Body of Christ Believers called up to escape the coming wrath. The Body of All believers in Christ as Savior show up in the fifth chapter of The Revelation as the ones purchased by the blood of Christ, as they witness the start of the Tribulation. Denominations are the figments of men’s fashioning. Go to The Word of God and read for yourself.

[CottonBall]

“This study highlights the importance of testing and re-testing messages as the people requiring persuasion changes over time,” said Scott E. Bokemper”

Doing Goebels proud