Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset

Mede NG 1 , Cologna V 2 , Berger S 3 , Besley J 4 , Brick C 5 , Joubert M 6 Show all authors , Maibach EW 7 , Mihelj S 8 , Oreskes N 9 , Schäfer MS 2 , van der Linden S 10 , Abdul Aziz NI 11 , Abdulsalam S 12 , Shamsi NA 13 , Aczel B 14 , Adinugroho I 15 , Alabrese E 16 , Aldoh A 5 , Alfano M 17 , Ali IM 18 , Alsobay M 19 , Altenmüller M 20 , Alvarez RM 21 , Amoako R 22 , Amollo T 23 , Ansah P 22 , Apriliawati D 24 , Azevedo F 25 , Bajrami A 26 , Bardhan R 27 , Bati K 28 , Bertsou E 29 , Betsch C 30 , Bhatiya AY 31 , Bhui R 19 , Białobrzeska O 32 , Bilewicz M 33 , Bouguettaya A 34 , Breeden K 35 , Bret A 36 , Buchel O 37 , Cabrera-Álvarez P 38 , Cagnoli F 39 , Valdez AC 40 , Callaghan T 41 , Cases RK 42 , Çoksan S 43 , Czarnek G 44 , De Peuter S 45 , Debnath R 21 , Delouvée S 46 , Di Stefano L 39 , Díaz-Catalán C 38 , Doell KC 47 , Dohle S 48 , Douglas KM 49 , Dries C 50 , Dubrov D 51 , Dzimińska M 52 , Ecker UKH 53 , Elbaek CT 54 , Elsherif M 34 , Enke B 55 , Etienne TW 56 , Facciani M 57 , Fage-Butler A 58 , Faisal MZ 59 , Fan X 60 , Farhart C 61 , Feldhaus C 62 , Ferreira M 17 , Feuerriegel S 63 , Fischer H 64 , Freundt J 65 , Friese M 66 , Fuglsang S 67 , Gallyamova A 51 , Garrido-Vásquez P 68 , Garrido Vásquez ME 68 , Gatua W 69 , Genschow O 70 , Ghasemi O 71 , Gkinopoulos T 44 , Gloor JL 72 , Goddard E 60 , Gollwitzer M 20 , González-Brambila C 73 , Gordon H 15 , Grigoryev D 51 , Grimshaw GM 74 , Guenther L 75 , Haarstad H 76 , Harari D 77 , Hawkins LN 78 , Hensel P 79 , Hernández-Mondragón AC 80 , Herziger A 77 , Huang G 81 , Huff M 64 , Hurley M 82 , Ibadildin N 83 , Ishibashi M 84 , Islam MT 85 , Jeddi Y 12 , Jin T 86 , Jones CA 87 , Jungkunz S 88 , Jurgiel D 89 , Kabdulkair Z 83 , Kao JJ 90 , Kavassalis S 78 , Kerr JR 91 , Kitsa M 92 , Klabíková Rábová T 93 , Klein O 94 , Koh H 95 , Koivula A 96 , Kojan L 40 , Komyaginskaya E 51 , König L 97 , Koppel L 98 , Cavalcante KKN 99 , Kosachenko A 100 , Kotcher J 7 , Kranz LS 74 , Krishnan P 29 , Kristiansen S 101 , Krouwel A 102 , Kuppens T 103 , Kyza EA 104 , Lamm C 47 , Lantian A 105 , Lazić A 106 , Lecuona O 107 , Légal JB 105 , Leviston Z 108 , Levy N 17 , Lindkvist AM 98 , Lits G 109 , Löschel A 62 , López-Ortega A 102 , Lopez-Villavicencio C 110 , Lou NM 111 , Lucas CH 87 , Lunz-Trujillo K 112 , Marques MD 113 , Mayer SJ 88 , McKay R 114 , Mercier H 115 , Metag J 116 , Milfont TL 117 , Miller JM 118 , Mitkidis P 54 , Monge-Rodríguez F 110 , Motta M 41 , Mudra I 92 , Muršič Z 119 , Namutebi J 120 , Newman EJ 108 , Nitschke JP 47 , Ntui NV 121 , Nwogwugwu D 122 , Ostermann T 123 , Otterbring T 124 , Palmer-Hague J 125 , Pantazi M 94 , Pärnamets P 126 , Parra Saiani P 39 , Paruzel-Czachura M 127 , Parzuchowski M 32 , Pavlov YG 100 , Pearson AR 128 , Penner MA 125 , Pennington CR 129 , Petkanopoulou K 130 , Petrović MM 106 , Pfänder J 115 , Pisareva D 95 , Ploszaj A 131 , Poliaková K 93 , Pronizius E 47 , Pypno-Blajda K 127 , Quiñones DMA 132 , Räsänen P 96 , Rauchfleisch A 90 , Rebitschek FG 50 , Refojo Seronero C 38 , Rêgo G 133 , Reynolds JP 129 , Roche J 82 , Rödder S 134 , Röer JP 123 , Ross RM 17 , Ruin I 135 , Santos O 136 , Santos RR 136 , Schmid P 30 , Schulreich S 137 , Scoggins B 138 , Sharaf A 139 , Sheria Nfundiko J 140 , Shuckburgh E 141 , Six J 142 , Solak N 139 , Späth L 142 , Spruyt B 143 , Standaert O 109 , Stanley SK 71 , Storms G 45 , Strahm N 3 , Syropoulos S 144 , Szaszi B 14 , Szumowska E 44 , Tanaka M 145 , Teran-Escobar C 105 , Todorova B 47 , Toko AK 12 , Tokrri R 146 , Toribio-Florez D 49 , Tsakiris M 114 , Tyrala M 147 , Uluğ ÖM 148 , Uzoma IC 149 , van Noord J 103 , Varda C 104 , Verheyen S 150 , Vilares I 86 , Vlasceanu M 151 , von Bubnoff A 152 , Walker I 108 , Warwas I 52 , Weber M 66 , Weninger T 57 , Westfal M 70 , Wintterlin F 116 , Wojcik AD 153 , Xia Z 154 , Xie J 155 , Zegler-Poleska E 131 , Zenklusen A 29 , Zwaan RA 150

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. n.mede@ikmz.uzh.ch
  • 2 Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 3 Institute of Sociology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 4 Department of Advertising+Public Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
  • 5 Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 6 Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • 7 Centre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
  • 8 Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
  • 9 Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  • 10 Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 11 Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
  • 12 School of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco
  • 13 Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 14 ELTE Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 15 School of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  • 16 Department of Economics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, UK
  • 17 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, Australia
  • 18 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Cameroun, Cameroon
  • 19 Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
  • 20 Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 21 Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
  • 22 Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
  • 23 Department of Physics, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya
  • 24 Department of Psychology, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 25 Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 26 Museum of Natural Sciences "Sabiha Kasimati", University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
  • 27 Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 28 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
  • 29 Institute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, Gallen, Switzerland
  • 30 Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
  • 31 Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 32 Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warszawa, Poland
  • 33 Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • 34 School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 35 Computer Science Department, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, USA
  • 36 Department of Psychology, Nantes Université, Nantes, France
  • 37 Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Staré Mesto, Slovakia
  • 38 Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain
  • 39 Department of International and Political Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
  • 40 Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
  • 41 Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  • 42 Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
  • 43 Department of Psychology, Erzurum Technical University, Erzurum, Türkiye
  • 44 Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
  • 45 Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • 46 LP3C (Psychology Laboratory), Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France
  • 47 Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • 48 Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • 49 School of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, UK
  • 50 Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
  • 51 Center for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
  • 52 Department of Labor and Social Policy, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
  • 53 School of Psychological Science & Public Policy Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
  • 54 Department of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 55 Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  • 56 Department of Political Science & Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
  • 57 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
  • 58 School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 59 a2i Programme of ICT Division and UNDP Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 60 Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • 61 Department of Political Science and International Relations, Carleton College, Northfield, USA
  • 62 Faculty of Management and Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • 63 LMU Munich School of Management, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 64 Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany
  • 65 School of Social Work, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Luzern, Switzerland
  • 66 Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 67 Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 68 Department of Psychology, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
  • 69 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  • 70 Institute for Management & Organization, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany
  • 71 School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • 72 Research Institute for Responsible Innovation, School of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • 73 Department of Business Administration, Instituto Técnológico Autónomo de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
  • 74 School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 75 Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 76 Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
  • 77 Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 78 Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, USA
  • 79 Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • 80 Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politícnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 81 Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 82 School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • 83 Department of Political Science and International Relations, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • 84 Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • 85 Department of Government & Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Bangladesh
  • 86 Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  • 87 School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  • 88 Institute of Political Science, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
  • 89 Institute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
  • 90 Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
  • 91 Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 92 Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 93 Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University, Staré Město, Czech Republic
  • 94 Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 95 Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
  • 96 Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
  • 97 Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
  • 98 Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
  • 99 Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland
  • 100 Department of Psychology, Ural Federal University, Sverdlovsk, Russia
  • 101 Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
  • 102 Department of Communication Science and Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 103 Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • 104 Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
  • 105 Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
  • 106 Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, University of Belgrade, Beograd, Serbia
  • 107 Department of Psychobiology and Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 108 School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • 109 Institut Langage et Communication, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
  • 110 Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, San Martín de Porres, Peru
  • 111 Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • 112 Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  • 113 School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
  • 114 Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
  • 115 Institut Jean Nicod, Département d'Études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
  • 116 Department of Communication, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
  • 117 School of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • 118 Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
  • 119 Office for Quality Assurance, Analyses and Reporting, Project EUTOPIA, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 120 Department of Management and Supply Chain Studies, Nkumba University, Entebbe, Uganda
  • 121 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
  • 122 Communication Arts Programme, Bowen University, Ogun, Nigeria
  • 123 Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
  • 124 Department of Management, University of Adger, Kristiansand, Norway
  • 125 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity Western University, Langley Twp, Canada
  • 126 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
  • 127 Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
  • 128 Department of Psychological Science, Pomona College, Claremont, USA
  • 129 School of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
  • 130 Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Iraklio, Greece
  • 131 Science Studies Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • 132 Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
  • 133 INCT-SANI, National Institute of Science and Technology on Social and Affective Neuroscience, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 134 Department of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 20144, Hamburg, Germany
  • 135 Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble-INP, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
  • 136 Institute of Environmental Health, Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 137 Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • 138 School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • 139 TED University, Ankara, Turkey
  • 140 Département de Sociologie, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • 141 Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 142 Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 143 Sociology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
  • 144 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Boston, USA
  • 145 Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Shinjuku City, Japan
  • 146 Department of Civil Law, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
  • 147 Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 148 School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
  • 149 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
  • 150 Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • 151 Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, USA
  • 152 Faculty of Technology and Bionics, Rhine-Waal University, Kleve, Germany
  • 153 Faculty of Philosophy and Social Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
  • 154 School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • 155 School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Sci Data, 2025 Jan 20;12(1):114.
PMID: 39833242 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7

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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