The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries

Scientific data. 2024. Vol. 11. Article 1066.

Doell K., Todorova B., Vlasceanu M., Coleman J., Pronizius E., Schumann P., Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Van Bavel J.

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.

Keywords: policy support, climate change, environmental psychology, behavior change, data, open data, climate interventions

Publication based on the results of: Socio-cultural and psychological factors of integration and disintegration of Russian society in the context of global challenges (2024)