Partisanship, Messaging, and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Evidence From Survey Experiments.

Purpose: To investigate partisanship in COVID-19 attitudes, and assess partisan or scientific messaging effects on COVID-19 vaccination intentions.

Design: Two-wave survey with two-arm randomized experiment.

Setting: Recruited Pennsylvania residents online.

Emotions and decisions in the real world: What can we learn from quasi-field experiments?

Researchers in the social sciences have increasingly studied how emotions influence decision-making. We argue that research on emotions arising naturally in real-world environments is critical for the generalizability of insights in this domain, and therefore to the development of this field. Given this, we argue for the increased use of the "quasi-field experiment" methodology, in which participants make decisions or complete tasks after as-if-random real-world events determine their emotional state.