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Publications

2023

  • Haeder, Simon F., Steven M. Sylvester, and Timothy Callaghan. “More Than Words? How Highlighting Target Populations Affects Public Opinion About the Medicaid Program.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and LawLink

  • Motta, Matthew, Timothy Callaghan, Steven M. Sylvester, and Kristin Lunz-Trujillo. “Identifying the Prevalence, Correlates, and Policy Consequences of Anti-Vaccine Social Identity.” Politics, Groups, & IdentitiesLink

  • Sylvester, Steven M., Matthew Motta, Kristen Lunz-Trujillo, and Timothy Callaghan. “Vaccinating Across the Aisle: Using Co-Partisan Source Cues to Encourage COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake on the Ideological Right.” Journal of Behavioral MedicineLink

2022

  • Haider-Markel, Donald P., Chelsie L. Bright, and Steven M. Sylvester. “Staying in Class: Representative Bureaucracy and Student Praise and Punishment.” Journal of Policy StudiesLink

  • Sylvester, Steven M., Simon F. Haeder, and Timothy Callaghan. “Just Say No? Public Attitudes about Supportive and Punitive Policies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.” Journal of Public PolicyLink

  • Callaghan, Timothy, Simon Haeder, and Steven M. Sylvester. “Past Experiences with Surprise Medical Bills Drive Issue Knowledge, Concern, and Attitudes Towards Federal Policy Intervention.” Health Economics, Policy, and LawLink

2021

  • Sylvester, Steven M. “COVID-19 and Motivated Reasoning: The Influence of Knowledge on COVID-Related Policy and Health Behavior.” Social Science QuarterlyLink

  • Motta, Matthew, Steven M. Sylvester, Timothy Callaghan, and Kristin Lunz-Trujillo. “Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake through Effective Health Communication.” Special Issue: Frontiers in Political Science – Politics of TechnologyLink

  • Haeder, Simon F., Steven M. Sylvester, and Timothy Callaghan. “Shared Stigma: Understanding LGBT Attitudes about the Opioid Crisis and Policies to Combat it.” World Medical and Health PolicyLink

  • Haeder, Simon F., Steven M. Sylvester, and Timothy Callaghan. “Lingering Legacies: Public Attitudes about Medicaid Beneficiaries and Work Requirements.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and LawLink

  • Lunz-Trujillo, Kristin, Matthew Motta, Timothy Callaghan, and Steven M. Sylvester. “Correcting Misperceptions about the MMR Vaccine: Identifying Psychological Risk Factors and Effective Communication Strategies Using Psychological Risk Factors to Inform Targeted Communication Strategies.” Political Research QuarterlyLink

  • Callaghan, Timothy and Steven M. Sylvester. “Private Citizens as Policy Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Autism Mandates and Parental Political Mobilization.” Policy Studies JournalLink

2019

  • Callaghan, Timothy, Matthew Motta, Steven M. Sylvester, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, and Christine Crudo Blackburn. “Parent Psychology and the Decision to Delay Childhood Vaccination.” Social Science & MedicineLink

  • Callaghan, Timothy and Steven M. Sylvester. “Autism Spectrum Disorder, Politics, and the Generosity of Insurance Mandates in the United States.” PLOS ONELink

  • Joslyn, Mark R., and Steven M. Sylvester. “The Determinants and Consequences of Accurate Beliefs about Childhood Vaccinations.” American Politics ResearchLink

  • Sylvester, Steven M. “Drunk Driving in America: A Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Public.” In Legislating Morality in America. Ed. Donald P. Haider-Markel.

2018

  • Motta, Matthew, Timothy Callaghan, and Steven M. Sylvester. “Knowing Less but Presuming More: Dunning-Kruger Effects & the Endorsement of Anti-Vaccine Policy Attitudes.” Social Science & MedicineLink

  • Doan, Alesha E., Carolina Costa-Coda, and Steven M. Sylvester. "We Are the Visible Proof: Legitimizing Abortion Regret Misinformation through Activists’ Experiential Knowledge.” Journal of Law & PolicyLink

2016

  • Sylvester, Steven M., and Donald P. Haider-Markel. “Buzz Kill: State Adoption of DUI Interlock Laws, 2005-2011.” Policy Studies JournalLink

  • Haider-Markel, Donald P., and Steven M. Sylvester. “Changing Policies/Changing Hearts and
    Minds: The Evolution of the LGBT Movement, In Interest Groups Politics, 9th ed. Eds.
    Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis, and Anthony J. Nownes. 

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