Yale Law School, PO Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2010 Dec;34(6):501-16. doi: 10.1007/s10979-009-9201-0.
The cultural cognition thesis holds that individuals form risk perceptions that reflect their commitments to contested views of the good society. We conducted a study that used the dispute over mandatory HPV vaccination to test the cultural cognition thesis. Although public health officials have recommended that all girls aged 11 or 12 be vaccinated for HPV-a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer-political controversy has blocked adoption of mandatory school-enrollment vaccination programs in all but one state. An experimental study of a large sample of American adults (N = 1,538) found that cultural cognition generates disagreement about the risks and benefits of the vaccine through two mechanisms: biased assimilation, and the credibility heuristic. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.
文化认知论点认为，个人形成的风险感知反映了他们对有争议的美好社会观点的承诺。我们进行了一项研究，利用对强制性 HPV 疫苗接种的争议来检验文化认知论点。尽管公共卫生官员建议所有 11 或 12 岁的女孩接种 HPV 疫苗——一种导致宫颈癌的性传播病毒——但政治争议使得除一个州以外的所有州都无法通过强制性学校入学疫苗接种计划。一项对大量美国成年人（N=1538）的实验研究发现，文化认知通过两种机制产生了对疫苗风险和益处的分歧：有偏见的同化和可信度启发式。我们讨论了理论和实践的影响。
