Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1010, Austria.
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, 78464, Germany.
Sci Data. 2024 Oct 1;11(1):1066. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1.
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.
气候变化是当前人类面临的最大威胁之一。为了帮助学者们了解气候变化的心理学,我们对来自 63 个国家的 59508 名参与者进行了一项在线准实验调查(收集时间为 2022 年 7 月至 2023 年 7 月之间)。在一个被试间设计中,我们测试了 11 种旨在促进气候变化缓解的干预措施,这些干预措施针对四个结果:气候变化信念、对气候政策的支持、在社交媒体上分享信息的意愿以及努力保护环境的行为任务的表现。参与者还报告了他们的人口统计学信息(例如年龄、性别)和其他几个自变量(例如政治取向、对科学共识的看法)。在无干预对照组中,我们还测量了重要的其他变量,例如环保主义者身份和对气候科学的信任。我们报告了合作程序、研究设计、原始和清理后的数据、所有调查材料、相关分析脚本和数据可视化。这个数据集可以用于进一步了解与个人层面的气候行动相关的心理、人口统计学和国家层面的因素,以及这些因素在不同国家之间的差异。