Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset
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2025-01-20
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Mede, Niels G.
Cologna, Viktoria
Berger, Sebastian
Besley, John
Brick, Cameron
Joubert, Marina
Maibach, Edward W.
Mihelj, Sabina
Oreskes, Naomi
Schäfer, Mike S.
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Abstract
Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study "Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism" (TISP). The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals' trust in scientists, science-related populist attitudes, perceptions of the role of science in society, science media use and communication behaviour, attitudes to climate change and support for environmental policies, personality traits, political and religious views and demographic characteristics. Here, we describe the dataset, survey materials and psychometric properties of key variables. We encourage researchers to use this unique dataset for global comparative analyses on public perceptions of science and its role in society and policy-making.
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Statistics and Probability, Information Systems, Education, Computer Science Applications, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Library and Information Sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, SDG 13 - Climate Action
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Mede, N G, Cologna, V, Berger, S, Besley, J, Brick, C, Joubert, M, Maibach, E W, Mihelj, S, Oreskes, N, Schäfer, M S, van der Linden, S, Abdul Aziz, N I, Abdulsalam, S, Shamsi, N A, Aczel, B, Adinugroho, I, Alabrese, E, Aldoh, A, Alfano, M, Ali, I M, Alsobay, M, Altenmüller, M, Alvarez, R M, Amoako, R, Amollo, T, Ansah, P, Apriliawati, D, Azevedo, F, Bajrami, A, Bardhan, R, Bati, K, Bertsou, E, Betsch, C, Bhatiya, A Y, Bhui, R, Białobrzeska, O, Bilewicz, M, Bouguettaya, A, Breeden, K, Bret, A, Buchel, O, Cabrera-Álvarez, P, Cagnoli, F, Valdez, A C, Callaghan, T, Cases, R K, Çoksan, S, Czarnek, G, De Peuter, S, Debnath, R, Delouvée, S, Di Stefano, L, Díaz-Catalán, C, Doell, K C, Dohle, S, Douglas, K M, Dries, C, Dubrov, D, Dzimińska, M, Ecker, U K H, Elbaek, C T, Elsherif, M, Enke, B, Etienne, T W, Facciani, M, Fage-Butler, A, Faisal, M Z, Fan, X, Farhart, C, Feldhaus, C, Ferreira, M, Feuerriegel, S, Fischer, H, Freundt, J, Friese, M, Fuglsang, S, Gallyamova, A, Garrido-Vásquez, P, Garrido Vásquez, M E, Gatua, W, Genschow, O, Ghasemi, O, Gkinopoulos, T, Gloor, J L, Goddard, E, Gollwitzer, M, González-Brambila, C, Gordon, H, Grigoryev, D, Grimshaw, G M, Guenther, L, Haarstad, H, Harari, D, Hawkins, L N, Hensel, P, Hernández-Mondragón, A C, Herziger, A, Huang, G, Huff, M, Hurley, M, Ibadildin, N, Ishibashi, M, Islam, M T, Jeddi, Y, Jin, T, Jones, C A, Jungkunz, S, Jurgiel, D, Kabdulkair, Z, Kao, J J, Kavassalis, S, Kerr, J R, Kitsa, M, Klabíková Rábová, T, Klein, O, Koh, H, Koivula, A, Kojan, L, Komyaginskaya, E, König, L, Koppel, L, Cavalcante, K K N, Kosachenko, A, Kotcher, J, Kranz, L S, Krishnan, P, Kristiansen, S, Krouwel, A, Kuppens, T, Kyza, E A, Lamm, C, Lantian, A, Lazić, A, Lecuona, O, Légal, J B, Leviston, Z, Levy, N, Lindkvist, A M, Lits, G, Löschel, A, López-Ortega, A, Lopez-Villavicencio, C, Lou, N M, Lucas, C H, Lunz-Trujillo, K, Marques, M D, Mayer, S J, McKay, R, Mercier, H, Metag, J, Milfont, T L, Miller, J M, Mitkidis, P, Monge-Rodríguez, F, Motta, M, Mudra, I, Muršič, Z, Namutebi, J, Newman, E J, Nitschke, J P, Ntui, N N V, Nwogwugwu, D, Ostermann, T, Otterbring, T, Palmer-Hague, J, Pantazi, M, Pärnamets, P, Parra Saiani, P, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Parzuchowski, M, Pavlov, Y G, Pearson, A R, Penner, M A, Pennington, C R, Petkanopoulou, K, Petrović, M M, Pfänder, J, Pisareva, D, Ploszaj, A, Poliaková, K, Pronizius, E, Pypno-Blajda, K, Quiñones, D M A, Räsänen, P, Rauchfleisch, A, Rebitschek, F G, Refojo Seronero, C, Rêgo, G, Reynolds, J P, Roche, J, Rödder, S, Röer, J P, Ross, R M, Ruin, I, Santos, O, Santos, R R, Schmid, P, Schulreich, S, Scoggins, B, Sharaf, A, Sheria Nfundiko, J, Shuckburgh, E, Six, J, Solak, N, Späth, L, Spruyt, B, Standaert, O, Stanley, S K, Storms, G, Strahm, N, Syropoulos, S, Szaszi, B, Szumowska, E, Tanaka, M, Teran-Escobar, C, Todorova, B, Toko, A K, Tokrri, R, Toribio-Florez, D, Tsakiris, M, Tyrala, M, Uluğ, Ö M, Uzoma, I C, van Noord, J, Varda, C, Verheyen, S, Vilares, I, Vlasceanu, M, von Bubnoff, A, Walker, I, Warwas, I, Weber, M, Weninger, T, Westfal, M, Wintterlin, F, Wojcik, A D, Xia, Z, Xie, J, Zegler-Poleska, E, Zenklusen, A & Zwaan, R A 2025, 'Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset', Scientific data, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 114-114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7