This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Discretionary Corrigenda (118)

Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/90652, first published .
Correction: Ingroup Favoritism Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Hispanic Communities: Experimental Study

Correction: Ingroup Favoritism Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Hispanic Communities: Experimental Study

Correction: Ingroup Favoritism Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Hispanic Communities: Experimental Study

Authors of this article:

Juwon Hwang1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Asya Cooley3 Author Orcid Image ;   Skye Cooley3 Author Orcid Image ;   Robert Hinck4 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by Tweetations (2) Metrics

    Corrigenda and Addenda

    1Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

    2Core Faculty, Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

    3School of Media and Strategic Communications, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States

    4Leadership and Innovation Institute, Air University, Montgomery, United States

    Corresponding Author:

    Juwon Hwang, PhD

    Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations

    College of Communication

    Boston University

    640 Commonwealth Ave,

    Boston, MA, 02215

    United States

    Phone: 1 617 353 3450

    Email: juhwang@bu.edu



    In “Ingroup Favoritism Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Hispanic Communities: Experimental Study” [1], the authors identified errors related to references and corresponding in-text citations.

    Reference 43 was invalid and has been removed from the reference list, and the corresponding in-text citation has been removed. The affected statement is now supported by the following reference:

    Daggett A, Abdollahi S, Hashemzadeh M. The effect of language concordance on health care relationship trust score. Cureus. May 26, 2023;15(5):e39530 [doi: 10.7759/cureus.39530] [Medline: 37366455]

    Reference 53 was invalid and has been removed from the reference list, and the corresponding in-text citation has been removed. The affected statement is now supported by the following reference:

    Chandler J, Rosenzweig C, Moss AJ, Robinson J, Litman L. Online panels in social science research: expanding sampling methods beyond Mechanical Turk. Behav Res Methods. Oct 2019;51(5):2022-2038. [doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01273-7] [Medline: 31512174]

    Reference 54 was invalid and has been removed from the reference list, and the corresponding in-text citation has been removed.

    References 55 and 56 were invalid entries of the same reference and have been removed from the reference list, and the corresponding in-text citations have been removed. The affected statement is now supported by the following reference:

    Khan H, Lee R, Lockshin L. Do ethnic cues improve advertising effectiveness for ethnic consumers? Australasian Marketing J. Aug 2015;23(3):218-226. [doi: 10.1016/j.ausmj.2015.07.001]

    Reference 44 was incorrectly attributed and has been corrected to the following reference:

    Haslam C, Jetten J, Cruwys T, Dingle G, Haslam SA. The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure. Routledge; 2018. [doi: 10.4324/9781315648569]

    Reference 58 was incorrectly attributed and has been corrected to the following reference:

    Ipeirotis P. Demographics of Mechanical Turk. New York University; Mar 2010. URL: https://ipeirotis.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CeDER-10-01.pdf [Accessed 2026-02-20]

    The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.

    1. Hwang J, Cooley A, Cooley S, Hinck R. Ingroup Favoritism Surrounding COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Hispanic Communities: Experimental Study. J Med Internet Res. May 27, 2025;27:e71188. [FREE Full text] [CrossRef] [Medline]

    This is a non–peer-reviewed article. submitted 31.Dec.2025; accepted 13.Feb.2026; published 06.Mar.2026.

    Copyright

    ©Juwon Hwang, Asya Cooley, Skye Cooley, Robert Hinck. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 06.Mar.2026.

    This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (ISSN 1438-8871), is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.