Publications by authors named "Alessandro Demichelis"
Background: Despite being a major advancement in modern medicine, vaccines face widespread hesitancy and refusal, posing challenges to immunization campaigns. The COVID-19 pandemic accentuated vaccine hesitancy, emphasizing the pivotal role of beliefs in efficacy and safety on vaccine acceptance rates. This study explores the influence of efficacy and safety perceptions on vaccine uptake in Italy during the pandemic.
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- An examination of how the perception of images (real vs. artificial) affects sexual arousal levels was conducted through two online studies.
- 60 underwear images were shown to participants, revealing that those believed to be real elicited greater self-reported sexual arousal compared to those perceived as artificially generated.
- The findings suggest that images perceived as real evoke stronger emotional responses, supporting existing research on emotional responses to fictional versus real-life stimuli.