Percent of unvaccinated Republicans expressing a “great deal of confidence” “when it comes to advising you on taking the covid-19 vaccine.”
FOX, VIRUS
Cell entries represent the percentage of respondents in a national survey indicating they have a great deal of confidence in vaccine advice coming from each of the indicated sources. This table relies on two different waves of the survey, March/April (sample size 422) and August/September (sample size 387). See SM Section F for details on question wording and the sampling approach.Because Republicans have become identified with skepticism about the severity of the COVID-19 virus and COVID vaccines, a pro-vaccine message from the leader of the Republican Party qualifies as counter-stereotypical—and counter-stereotypical messages have been shown to evoke more effortful mental processing (A pro-vaccine endorsement from Donald Trump that is associated with Fox News should further enhance the counter-stereotypical nature of the message. Fox News personalities have been skeptical of Fauci and many COVID vaccine efforts. Moreover, previous research has demonstrated the persuasive effects of Fox News on Republican attitudes broadly, as well as on viewers’ attitudes toward pandemic guidelines in particular (