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    Biased perceptions against female scientists affect intentions to get vaccinated for COVID-19
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2022) Kuru, Ozan; Yıldırım, Kerem; N/A; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; Department of International Relations; Doğan, İsminaz; Baruh, Lemi; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Master Student; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Psychology; Department of International Relations; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 36113; 40374; 125588
    Based on role congruity theory, we investigated how gender bias may influence public attitudes toward the vaccine in Turkey. Using a between-subjects design, we tested whether an emphasis on the female versus the male scientist as the vaccine's inventor in a news story influenced attitudes about the BioNTech vaccine and vaccination intentions. Partly confirming role congruity theory, three-way interaction results from 665 participants demonstrated that among male participants with a stronger belief in traditional gender roles (compared to males with lower belief), the presence of the female inventor, either by herself or together with the male inventor, decreased the perceived efficacy and safety of the vaccine and reduced intentions to be vaccinated by the BioNTech vaccine. We did not observe such differences for women. These findings highlight how gender bias may influence individuals' information processing and decision making in a way that may have negative consequences for public health.
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    Explaining health misinformation belief through news, social, and alternative health media use: the moderating roles of need for cognition and faith in intuition
    Wu, Yuanyuan; Kuru, Ozan; Campbell, Scott W.; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Baruh, Lemi; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 36113
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    Partisan bias in COVID-19 conspiracy theories: news reliance and the moderating role of trust in health authorities
    (Taylor and Francis, 2023) Wu, Yuanyuan; Kuru, Ozan; Yildirim, Kerem; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of International Relations; Department of Psychology; Baruh, Lemi; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of International Relations; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 36113; 125588; 40374
    Neglecting the role of political bias in the public's perceptions of health authorities could be deceptive when studying potentially politicized COVID-19 conspiracy theories (CCTs); however, previous studies often treated health authorities as a single entity and did not distinguish between different types of CCTs. Drawing from motivated reasoning theory, we investigate the politically motivated nature of CCTs by examining their associations with individuals' media reliance, party identification, conspiratorial mentality, and importantly, trust in (politicized or independent) health authorities. In a national survey conducted in late 2020 (N = 2,239) in Turkey, a heavily polarized context, we found that not accounting for political identities shown in CCTs and health authorities could be misleading. While those with a strong conspiracy mentality were more likely to endorse all types of CCTs, party identification and trust in different types of health authorities led people to believe in certain CCTs aligning with their political attitudes. The influence of media reliance on CCTs depended on the level of trust in health authorities, again suggestive of the influence of political partialities.