APS
2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023
A Test of the Risk Compensation Hypothesis with Respect to COVID-19 Vaccination
- Mohammad Sakib
University of Waterloo - Jessica Lee
University of Waterloo - Gang Meng
University of Waterloo - Anne Quah
University of Waterloo - Thomas Agar
University of Waterloo - Geoffrey Fong
University of Waterloo - Peter Hall
University of Waterloo
Abstract
The risk compensation model holds that vaccinated individuals might be less motivated to perform other disease mitigation behaviors because they perceive lowered disease risk. We tested this hypothesis in relation to COVID-19 vaccination. We found that vaccinated individuals instead perform other mitigation behaviors with more consistency and maintain them longer.
Epidemics and Public Health
