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

Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besley, Cameron A. Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward Wile Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Наоми Орескес, Mike Steffen Schäfer

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Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abiodun Abdulsalam, Nurulaini Abu Shamsi, Balázs Aczél, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Mohammed Alsobay, Marlene Sophie Altenmüller, R. Michael Alvarez, Richard Amoako, Tabitha A. Amollo, Patrick Ansah, Denisa Apriliawati, Flávio Azevedo, Ani Bajrami, Ronita Bardhan, Keagile Bati, Eri Bertsou, Cornelia Betsch, Apurav Yash Bhatiya, Rahul Bhui, Olga Białobrzeska, Michał Bilewicz, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Katherine Breeden, Amélie Bret, Ondrej Buchel, Pablo Cabrera‐Álvarez, Federica Cagnoli, André Sergej Calero Valdez, Timothy Callaghan, Rizza Kaye Cases, Sami Çoksan, Gabriela Czarnek, Steven De Peuter, Ramit Debnath, Sylvain Delouvée, Lucia Di Stefano, Celia Díaz‐Catalán, Kimberly C Doell, Simone Dohle, Karen M. Douglas, Charlotte Dries, Dmitrii I. Dubrov, Małgorzata Dzimińska, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif, Benjamin Enke, Tom W. Etienne, Matthew J. Facciani, Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler, Md. Zaki Faisal, Xiaoli Fan, Christina E. Farhart, Christoph Feldhaus, Marinus Ferreira, Stefan Feuerriegel, Helen Fischer, Jana Freundt, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Alikovna Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido‐Vásquez, Mauricio E. Garrido Vásquez, Winfred Gatua, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Jamie L. Peterson Gloor, Ellen W. Goddard, Mario Gollwitzer, Claudia N. González-Brambila, Hazel Gordon, Dmitry Sergeevich Grigoryev, Gina M. Grimshaw, Lars Guenther, Håvard Haarstad, Dana Harari, Lelia N. Hawkins, Przemysław G. Hensel, Alma Cristal Hernández‐Mondragón, Atar Herziger, Guanxiong Huang, Markus Huff, Mairéad Hurley

2025

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DOI 10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7
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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.