The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries
Climate change is currently one of humanity’s greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries (collected between July 2022 and July 2023). In a between-subjects design, we tested 11 interventions designed to promote climate change mitigation across four outcomes: climate change belief, support for climate policies, willingness to share information on social media, and performance on an effortful pro-environmental behavioural task. Participants also reported their demographic information (e.g., age, gender) and several other independent variables (e.g., political orientation, perceptions about the scientific consensus). In the no-intervention control group, we also measured important additional variables, such as environmentalist identity and trust in climate science. We report the collaboration procedure, study design, raw and cleaned data, all survey materials, relevant analysis scripts, and data visualisations. This dataset can be used to further the understanding of psychological, demographic, and national-level factors related to individual-level climate action and how these differ across countries.
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Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) PDR 0253.19
SWPS University in Warsaw
Radboud University Behavioural Science Institute
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Center for the Science of Moral Understanding
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Evidence-based pathways towards sustainable judgment and decision-making: A multi-dimensional perspective
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School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
Replicability and Reducibility of heuristics and biases in Judgment and Decision Making (RR-JDM)
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Citation
Doell, K.C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M. et al. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Sci Data 11, 1066 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1Author affiliation
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2024-09-06Copyright date
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Dr Mams ElsherifDeposit date
2024-10-27Data Access Statement
All data (raw and cleaned), the materials from the study (e.g., Qualtrics surveys, IRB forms, etc.), codebooks, and the code presented in this manuscript are available at https://osf.io/ytf89.Rights Retention Statement
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