Behind the Paper
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Attitude roots and psychological traits of anti-vaccination argument endorsement
What motivates people to support anti-vaccination rhetoric? We investigate the attitude roots and personality profiles of those who are more likely to endorse arguments against vaccination, and find distinct clusters of traits which can inform vaccine communication strategies.
Birth of a pathogen: The emergence of Kingella kingae virulence from the acquisition, co-option, and duplication of toxin-associated genes.
In our most recent paper, we explore the evolutionary history of the pediatric pathogen, Kingella kingae.