Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries

Viktoria Cologna; Niels G. Mede; Sebastian Berge; John Besley; Cameron Brick; Marina Joubert; Edward W. Maibach; Sabina Mihelj; Naomi Oreskes; Mike S. Schäfer; Sander van der Linden; Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz; Suleiman Abdulsalam; Nurulaini Abu Shams; Balazs Aczel; Indro Adinugroho; Eleonora Alabrese; Alaa Aldoh; Mark Alfano; Mohammed Alsobay; Marlene Altenmüller; R. Michael Alvarez; Richard Amoako; Tabitha Amollo; Patrick Ansah; Denisa Apriliawati; Flavio Azevedo; Ani Bajrami; Ronita Bardhan; Keagile Bati; Eri Bertsou; Cornelia Betsch; Apurav Bhatiya; Rahul Bhui; Olga Bialobrzeska; Michał Bilewicz; Ayoub Bouguettaya; Katherine Breeden; Amélie Bret; Ondrej Buchel; Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez; Federica Cagnoli; André Calero Valdez; Timothy Callaghan; Rizza Kaye Cases; Sami Çoksan; Gabriela Czarnek; Steven De Peuter; Ramit Debnath; Sylvain Delouvée; Celia Díaz-Catalán; Lucia Di Stefano; Kimberly C. Doell; Simone Dohle; Karen M. Douglas; Charlotte Dries; Dmitrii Dubrov; Małgorzata Dzimińska; Ullrich K. H. Ecker; Christian T. Elbaek; Mahmoud Elsherif; Benjamin Enke; Tom W. Etienne; Matthew Facciani; Antoinette Fage-Butler; Md. Zaki Faisal; Xiaoli Fan; Christina Farhart; Christoph Feldhaus; Marinus Ferreira; Stefan Feuerriegel; Helen Fischer; Jana Freundt; Malte Friese; Simon Fuglsang; Albina Gallyamova; Patricia Garrido-Vásquez; Mauricio Garrido Vásquez; Winfred Gatua; Oliver Genschow; Omid Ghasemi; Theofilos Gkinopoulos; Jamie Gloor; Ellen Goddard; Mario Gollwitzer; Claudia González Brambila; Hazel Gordon; Dmitry Grigoryev; Gina M. Grimshaw; Lars Guenther; Håvard Haarstad; Dana Harari; Lelia N. Hawkins; Przemysław Hensel; Alma Cristal Hernández-Mondragón; Atar Herziger; Guanxiong Huang; Markus Huff; Mairéad Hurley; Nygmet Ibadildin; Maho Ishibashi; Mohammad Tarikul  Islam; Younes Jeddi; Tao Jin; Charlotte A. Jones; Sebastian Jungkunz; Dominika Jurgiel; Zhangir Kabdulkair; Jo-Ju Kao; Sarah Kavassalis; John R. Kerr; Mariana Kitsa; Tereza Klabíková Rábová; Olivier Klein; Hoyoun Koh; Aki Koivula; Lilian Kojan; Elizaveta Komyaginskaya; Laura König; Lina Koppel; Alexandra Kosachenko; John Kotcher; Laura S. Kranz; Pradeep Krishnan; Silje Kristiansen; Andre Krouwel; Toon Kuppens; Eleni A. Kyza; Claus Lamm; Anthony Lantian; Aleksandra Lazić; Oscar Lecuona de la Cruz; Jean-Baptiste Légal; Zoe Leviston; Neil Levy; Amanda Lindkvist; Grégoire Lits; Andreas Löschel; Alberto López Ortega; Carlos Lopez-Villavicencio; Nigel Mantou Lou; Chloe H. Lucas; Kristin Lunz-Trujillo; Mathew D. Marques; Sabrina Mayer; Ryan McKay; Hugo Mercier; Julia Metag; Taciano L. Milfont; Joanne Miller; Panagiotis Mitkidis; Fredy Monge-Rodríguez; Matt Motta; Iryna Mudra; Zarja Muršič; Jennifer Namutebi; Eryn J. Newman; Jonas P. Nitschke; Fernando Luiz Nobre Cavalcante; Daniel Nwogwugwu; Thomas Ostermann; Tobias Otterbring; Jaime Palmer-Hague; Myrto Pantazi; Philip Pärnamets; Paolo Parra Saiani; Mariola Paruzel-Czachura; Michal Parzuchowski; Yuri Pavlov; Adam R. Pearson; Myron A. Penner; Charlotte R. Pennington; Katerina Petkanopoulou; Marija Petrović; Jan Pfänder; Dinara Pisareva; Adam Ploszaj; Karolína Poliaková; Ekaterina Pronizius; Katarzyna Pypno; Diwa Malaya Quiñones; Pekka Räsänen; Adrian Rauchfleisch; Felix G. Rebitschek; Cintia Refojo Seronero; Gabriel Rêgo; James P. Reynolds; Joseph Roche; Simone Rödder; Jan Philipp Röer; Robert M. Ross; Isabelle Ruin; Osvaldo Santos; Ricardo R. Santos; Philipp Schmid; Stefan Schulreich; Bermond Scoggins; Amena Sharaf; Justin Sheria Nfundiko; Emily Shuckburgh; Johan Six; Nevin Solak; Leonhard Späth; Bram Spruyt; Olivier Standaert; Samantha K. Stanley; Gert Storms; Noel Strahm; Stylianos Syropoulos; Barnabas Szaszi; Ewa Szumowska; Mikihito Tanaka; Claudia Teran-Escobar; Boryana Todorova; Abdoul Kafid Toko; Renata Tokrri; Daniel Toribio-Florez; Manos Tsakiris; Michael Tyrala; Özden Melis Uluğ; Ijeoma Chinwe Uzoma; Jochem van Noord; Christiana Varda; Steven Verheyen; Iris Vilares; Madalina Vlasceanu; Andreas von Bubnoff; Iain Walker; Izabela Warwas; Marcel Weber; Tim Weninger; Mareike Westfal; Florian Wintterlin; Adrian Dominik Wojcik; Ziqian Xia; Jinliang Xie; Ewa Zegler-Poleska; Amber Zenklusen; Rolf A. Zwaan

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries

Viktoria Cologna^*, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berge, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W. Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S. Schäfer, Sander van der Linden, Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz, Suleiman Abdulsalam, Nurulaini Abu Shams, Balazs Aczel, Indro Adinugroho, Eleonora Alabrese, Alaa Aldoh, Mark Alfano, Mohammed AlsobayMarlene Altenmüller, R. Michael Alvarez, Richard Amoako, Tabitha Amollo, Patrick Ansah, Denisa Apriliawati, Flavio Azevedo, Ani Bajrami, Ronita Bardhan, Keagile Bati, Eri Bertsou, Cornelia Betsch, Apurav Bhatiya, Rahul Bhui, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michał Bilewicz, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Katherine Breeden, Amélie Bret, Ondrej Buchel, Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez, Federica Cagnoli, André Calero Valdez, Timothy Callaghan, Rizza Kaye Cases, Sami Çoksan, Gabriela Czarnek, Steven De Peuter, Ramit Debnath, Sylvain Delouvée, Celia Díaz-Catalán, Lucia Di Stefano, Kimberly C. Doell, Simone Dohle, Karen M. Douglas, Charlotte Dries, Dmitrii Dubrov, Małgorzata Dzimińska, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Benjamin Enke, Tom W. Etienne, Matthew Facciani, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Md. Zaki Faisal, Xiaoli Fan, Christina Farhart, Christoph Feldhaus, Marinus Ferreira, Stefan Feuerriegel, Helen Fischer, Jana Freundt, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, Mauricio Garrido Vásquez, Winfred Gatua, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Jamie Gloor, Ellen Goddard, Mario Gollwitzer, Claudia González Brambila, Hazel Gordon, Dmitry Grigoryev, Gina M. Grimshaw, Lars Guenther, Håvard Haarstad, Dana Harari, Lelia N. Hawkins, Przemysław Hensel, Alma Cristal Hernández-Mondragón, Atar Herziger, Guanxiong Huang, Markus Huff, Mairéad Hurley, Nygmet Ibadildin, Maho Ishibashi, Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Younes Jeddi, Tao Jin, Charlotte A. Jones, Sebastian Jungkunz, Dominika Jurgiel, Zhangir Kabdulkair, Jo-Ju Kao, Sarah Kavassalis, John R. Kerr, Mariana Kitsa, Tereza Klabíková Rábová, Olivier Klein, Hoyoun Koh, Aki Koivula, Lilian Kojan, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, Laura König, Lina Koppel, Alexandra Kosachenko, John Kotcher, Laura S. Kranz, Pradeep Krishnan, Silje Kristiansen, Andre Krouwel, Toon Kuppens, Eleni A. Kyza, Claus Lamm, Anthony Lantian, Aleksandra Lazić, Oscar Lecuona de la Cruz, Jean-Baptiste Légal, Zoe Leviston, Neil Levy, Amanda Lindkvist, Grégoire Lits, Andreas Löschel, Alberto López Ortega, Carlos Lopez-Villavicencio, Nigel Mantou Lou, Chloe H. Lucas, Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, Mathew D. Marques, Sabrina Mayer, Ryan McKay, Hugo Mercier, Julia Metag, Taciano L. Milfont, Joanne Miller, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy Monge-Rodríguez, Matt Motta, Iryna Mudra, Zarja Muršič, Jennifer Namutebi, Eryn J. Newman, Jonas P. Nitschke, Fernando Luiz Nobre Cavalcante, Daniel Nwogwugwu, Thomas Ostermann, Tobias Otterbring, Jaime Palmer-Hague, Myrto Pantazi, Philip Pärnamets, Paolo Parra Saiani, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Michal Parzuchowski, Yuri Pavlov, Adam R. Pearson, Myron A. Penner, Charlotte R. Pennington, Katerina Petkanopoulou, Marija Petrović, Jan Pfänder, Dinara Pisareva, Adam Ploszaj, Karolína Poliaková, Ekaterina Pronizius, Katarzyna Pypno, Diwa Malaya Quiñones, Pekka Räsänen, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Felix G. Rebitschek, Cintia Refojo Seronero, Gabriel Rêgo, James P. Reynolds, Joseph Roche, Simone Rödder, Jan Philipp Röer, Robert M. Ross, Isabelle Ruin, Osvaldo Santos, Ricardo R. Santos, Philipp Schmid, Stefan Schulreich, Bermond Scoggins, Amena Sharaf, Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Emily Shuckburgh, Johan Six, Nevin Solak, Leonhard Späth, Bram Spruyt, Olivier Standaert, Samantha K. Stanley, Gert Storms, Noel Strahm, Stylianos Syropoulos, Barnabas Szaszi, Ewa Szumowska, Mikihito Tanaka, Claudia Teran-Escobar, Boryana Todorova, Abdoul Kafid Toko, Renata Tokrri, Daniel Toribio-Florez, Manos Tsakiris, Michael Tyrala, Özden Melis Uluğ, Ijeoma Chinwe Uzoma, Jochem van Noord, Christiana Varda, Steven Verheyen, Iris Vilares, Madalina Vlasceanu, Andreas von Bubnoff, Iain Walker, Izabela Warwas, Marcel Weber, Tim Weninger, Mareike Westfal, Florian Wintterlin, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Ziqian Xia, Jinliang Xie, Ewa Zegler-Poleska, Amber Zenklusen, Rolf A. Zwaan

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Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. Here we interrogated these concerns with a pre-registered 67-country survey of 71,417 respondents on all inhabited continents and find that in most countries, a majority of the public trust scientists and think that scientists should be more engaged in policymaking. We further show that there is a discrepancy between the public’s perceived and desired priorities of scientific research. Moreover, we find variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual-and country-level variables,including political orientation. While these results do not show widespread lack of trust in scientists, we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking. These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists.

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Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berge, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Aziz, N. I. A., Abdulsalam, S., Shams, N. A., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., ... Zwaan, R. A. (2024). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. OSFPREPRINTS. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6ay7s

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AU - Maibach, Edward W.

AU - Mihelj, Sabina

AU - Oreskes, Naomi

AU - Schäfer, Mike S.

AU - van der Linden, Sander

AU - Aziz, Nor Izzatina Abdul

AU - Abdulsalam, Suleiman

AU - Shams, Nurulaini Abu

AU - Aczel, Balazs

AU - Adinugroho, Indro

AU - Alabrese, Eleonora

AU - Aldoh, Alaa

AU - Alfano, Mark

AU - Alsobay, Mohammed

AU - Altenmüller, Marlene

AU - Alvarez, R. Michael

AU - Amoako, Richard

AU - Amollo, Tabitha

AU - Ansah, Patrick

AU - Apriliawati, Denisa

AU - Azevedo, Flavio

AU - Bajrami, Ani

AU - Bardhan, Ronita

AU - Bati, Keagile

AU - Bertsou, Eri

AU - Betsch, Cornelia

AU - Bhatiya, Apurav

AU - Bhui, Rahul

AU - Bialobrzeska, Olga

AU - Bilewicz, Michał

AU - Bouguettaya, Ayoub

AU - Breeden, Katherine

AU - Bret, Amélie

AU - Buchel, Ondrej

AU - Cabrera-Álvarez, Pablo

AU - Cagnoli, Federica

AU - Valdez, André Calero

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AU - Cases, Rizza Kaye

AU - Çoksan, Sami

AU - Czarnek, Gabriela

AU - De Peuter, Steven

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AU - Elsherif, Mahmoud

AU - Enke, Benjamin

AU - Etienne, Tom W.

AU - Facciani, Matthew

AU - Fage-Butler, Antoinette

AU - Faisal, Md. Zaki

AU - Fan, Xiaoli

AU - Farhart, Christina

AU - Feldhaus, Christoph

AU - Ferreira, Marinus

AU - Feuerriegel, Stefan

AU - Fischer, Helen

AU - Freundt, Jana

AU - Friese, Malte

AU - Fuglsang, Simon

AU - Gallyamova, Albina

AU - Garrido-Vásquez, Patricia

AU - Vásquez, Mauricio Garrido

AU - Gatua, Winfred

AU - Genschow, Oliver

AU - Ghasemi, Omid

AU - Gkinopoulos, Theofilos

AU - Gloor, Jamie

AU - Goddard, Ellen

AU - Gollwitzer, Mario

AU - Brambila, Claudia González

AU - Gordon, Hazel

AU - Grigoryev, Dmitry

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AU - Seronero, Cintia Refojo

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AU - Rödder, Simone

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AU - Ross, Robert M.

AU - Ruin, Isabelle

AU - Santos, Osvaldo

AU - Santos, Ricardo R.

AU - Schmid, Philipp

AU - Schulreich, Stefan

AU - Scoggins, Bermond

AU - Sharaf, Amena

AU - Nfundiko, Justin Sheria

AU - Shuckburgh, Emily

AU - Six, Johan

AU - Solak, Nevin

AU - Späth, Leonhard

AU - Spruyt, Bram

AU - Standaert, Olivier

AU - Stanley, Samantha K.

AU - Storms, Gert

AU - Strahm, Noel

AU - Syropoulos, Stylianos

AU - Szaszi, Barnabas

AU - Szumowska, Ewa

AU - Tanaka, Mikihito

AU - Teran-Escobar, Claudia

AU - Todorova, Boryana

AU - Toko, Abdoul Kafid

AU - Tokrri, Renata

AU - Toribio-Florez, Daniel

AU - Tsakiris, Manos

AU - Tyrala, Michael

AU - Uluğ, Özden Melis

AU - Uzoma, Ijeoma Chinwe

AU - van Noord, Jochem

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AU - Verheyen, Steven

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PY - 2024/1/25

Y1 - 2024/1/25

N2 - Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. Here we interrogated these concerns with a pre-registered 67-country survey of 71,417 respondents on all inhabited continents and find that in most countries, a majority of the public trust scientists and think that scientists should be more engaged in policymaking. We further show that there is a discrepancy between the public’s perceived and desired priorities of scientific research. Moreover, we find variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual-and country-level variables,including political orientation. While these results do not show widespread lack of trust in scientists, we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking. These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists.

AB - Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. Here we interrogated these concerns with a pre-registered 67-country survey of 71,417 respondents on all inhabited continents and find that in most countries, a majority of the public trust scientists and think that scientists should be more engaged in policymaking. We further show that there is a discrepancy between the public’s perceived and desired priorities of scientific research. Moreover, we find variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual-and country-level variables,including political orientation. While these results do not show widespread lack of trust in scientists, we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking. These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists.

M3 - Preprint

BT - Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries

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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries

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