Religious Identity, Political Orientation and Vaccine Attitudes with Dr Renate Ysseldyk and Emily Tippins

In this episode Will is joined by a new co-host Dr Rebecca
Hughes, a social psychologist at the University of Birmingham.
Will and Rebecca welcome Renate Ysseldyk, Associate Professor in
the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada specializing in Social and Health
Psychology, and Emily Tippins, a PhD student at the University of
Ottawa, who recently completed her Masters of Science working
with Renate at Carleton University. Renate and Emily discuss
how religious and non-religious individuals in Canada coped with
the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic and the differential
relations between religiosity, trust in science (or lack thereof)
and vaccine intentions that exist between religious and
non-religious individuals. They complicate this picture further
by highlighting the role that political orientation plays in
vaccine intentions and trust in science, showing that it can play
a greater role than religious/non-religious identity. Renate and
Emily discuss the wider societal implications of this, and
vaccine hesitancy more generally.