salience
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Martin McKee, a professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, emphasized that incentives need to have salience.
From Washington Post
“They have added new types of nuclear capabilities to their arsenal, increased the salience of nuclear forces in their strategies and plans, and engaged in increasingly aggressive behavior,” the report said.
From Washington Times
The eye-contact effect is a phenomenon in which awareness of being the object of others’ attention triggers an arousal response that enhances stimulus salience and information processing during social attention coordination.
From Scientific American
“Once puberty and hormones pass through the circuit, suddenly those cues have meaning. They don’t have salience until you shift into the adolescent phase.”
From Scientific American
So anything that can be done to reduce the political salience of vaccination, to make it seem less "liberal" and more like regular health care, can benefit us all.
From Salon
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