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ArticleNature human behaviour2025

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries.

Viktoria Cologna, Niels G Mede, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, Cameron Brick, Marina Joubert, Edward W Maibach, Sabina Mihelj, Naomi Oreskes, Mike S Schäfer and 231 more

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Article in Nature human behaviour, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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Viktoria ColognaDepartment of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. viktoriacologna@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3706-8669
Niels G MedeDepartment of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5707-7568
Sebastian BergerInstitute of Sociology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2392-1024
John BesleyDepartment of Advertising + Public Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Cameron BrickDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7174-8193
Marina JoubertCentre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-1796
Edward W MaibachCentre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3409-9187
Sabina MiheljCentre for Research in Communication and Culture, Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8557-2504
Naomi OreskesDepartment of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Mike S SchäferDepartment of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0847-7503
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Nor Izzatina Abdul AzizInstitute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9515-3274
Suleiman AbdulsalamSchool of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco.
Nurulaini Abu ShamsiDepartment of Science & Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Balazs AczelELTE Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9364-4988
Indro AdinugrohoSchool of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Eleonora AlabreseDepartment of Economics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Alaa AldohDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mark AlfanoDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5879-8033
Innocent Mbulli AliDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon.
Mohammed AlsobaySloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Marlene AltenmüllerDepartment of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1714-3601
R Michael AlvarezLinde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Richard AmoakoDepartment of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Tabitha AmolloDepartment of Physics, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya.
Patrick AnsahDepartment of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Denisa ApriliawatiDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6452-073X
Flavio AzevedoDepartment of Interdisciplinary Social Science, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Ani BajramiMuseum of Natural Sciences 'Sabiha Kasimati', University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5349-2510
Ronita BardhanDepartment of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Keagile BatiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-8730
Eri BertsouInstitute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Cornelia BetschInstitute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2856-7303
Apurav Yash BhatiyaDepartment of Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-9048
Rahul BhuiSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6303-8837
Olga BiałobrzeskaInstitute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0387-3187
Michał BilewiczFaculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5027-1691
Ayoub BouguettayaSchool of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Katherine BreedenComputer Science Department, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA.
Amélie BretDepartment of Psychology, Nantes Université, LPPL, Nantes, France.
Ondrej BuchelInstitute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-5513
Pablo Cabrera-ÁlvarezDepartment of Scientific and Innovation Culture, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
Federica CagnoliDepartment of International and Political Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
André Calero ValdezInstitute of Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
Timothy CallaghanDepartment of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Rizza Kaye CasesDepartment of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Sami ÇoksanDepartment of Psychology, Erzurum Technical University, Erzurum, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2942-1506
Gabriela CzarnekBehavior in Crisis Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
Steven De PeuterDepartment of Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4137-4431
Ramit DebnathLinde Center for Science, Society, and Policy, Division of Humanities and Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0727-5683
Sylvain DelouvéeLP3C (Psychology Laboratory), Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-597X
Lucia Di StefanoDepartment of International and Political Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Celia Díaz-CatalánDepartment of Scientific and Innovation Culture, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-6886
Kimberly C DoellDepartment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-9609
Simone DohleInstitute of General Practice and Family Medicine, University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Karen M DouglasSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0381-6924
Charlotte DriesHarding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Dmitrii DubrovCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8146-4197
Małgorzata DzimińskaDepartment of Labor and Social Policy, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Ullrich K H EckerSchool of Psychological Science & Public Policy Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-313X
Christian T ElbaekDepartment of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7039-4565
Mahmoud ElsherifSchool of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Benjamin EnkeDepartment of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7400-3293
Tom W EtienneDepartment of Political Science & Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Matthew FaccianiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Antoinette Fage-ButlerSchool of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Md Zaki Faisala2i Programme of ICT Division and UNDP Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Xiaoli FanDepartment of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Christina FarhartDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA.
Christoph FeldhausFaculty of Management and Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Marinus FerreiraDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Stefan FeuerriegelLMU Munich School of Management, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-8729
Helen FischerLeibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
Jana FreundtSchool of Social Work, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Malte FrieseDepartment of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0055-513X
Simon FuglsangDepartment of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0393-0003
Albina GallyamovaCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Patricia Garrido-VásquezDepartment of Psychology, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Mauricio E Garrido VásquezDepartment of Psychology, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Winfred GatuaFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Oliver GenschowInstitute for Management & Organization, Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany.
Omid GhasemiSchool of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7511-5580
Theofilos GkinopoulosBehavior in Crisis Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
Jamie L GloorResearch Institute for Responsible Innovation, School of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Ellen GoddardDepartment of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Mario GollwitzerDepartment of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-4793
Claudia González-BrambilaDepartment of Business Administration, Instituto Técnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-5091
Hazel GordonSchool of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-6419
Dmitry GrigoryevCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-7942
Gina M GrimshawSchool of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Lars GuentherDepartment of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Håvard HaarstadDepartment of Geography, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Dana HarariFaculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Lelia N HawkinsHixon Center for Climate and the Environment, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA.
Przemysław HenselFaculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-2317
Alma Cristal Hernández-MondragónCentro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politícnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Atar HerzigerFaculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Guanxiong HuangDepartment of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Markus HuffLeibniz Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany.
Mairéad HurleySchool of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-0798
Nygmet IbadildinDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Maho IshibashiCenter for Integrated Disaster Information Research, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6009-9706
Mohammad Tarikul IslamDepartment of Government & Politics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Younes JeddiSchool of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco.
Tao JinDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Charlotte A JonesSchool of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.
Sebastian JungkunzInstitute of Political Science, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Dominika JurgielInstitute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2934-5961
Zhangir KabdulkairDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Jo-Ju KaoGraduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sarah KavassalisHixon Center for Climate and the Environment, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA.
John R KerrDepartment of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6606-5507
Mariana KitsaDepartment of Journalism and Mass Communication, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Tereza Klabíková RábováInstitute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6970-3511
Olivier KleinCenter for Social and Cultural Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2737-8049
Hoyoun KohDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Aki KoivulaDepartment of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8453-0863
Lilian KojanInstitute of Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
Elizaveta KomyaginskayaCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Laura KönigFaculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health, University of Bayreuth, Kulmbach, Germany.
Lina KoppelDivision of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-0047
Kochav Koren Nobre CavalcanteFaculty of Polish and Classical Philology, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań, Poland.
Alexandra KosachenkoDepartment of Psychology, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
John KotcherCentre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4789-1384
Laura S KranzSchool of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pradeep KrishnanInstitute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Silje KristiansenCentre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
André KrouwelDepartment of Communication Science and Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Toon KuppensFaculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Eleni A KyzaDepartment of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
Claus LammDepartment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5422-0653
Anthony LantianLaboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-3914
Aleksandra LazićLaboratory for Research of Individual Differences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-0483
Oscar LecuonaDepartment of Psychobiology and Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0080-1062
Jean-Baptiste LégalLaboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6410-3971
Zoe LevistonSchool of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4969-7916
Neil LevyDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5679-1986
Amanda M LindkvistDivision of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3984-5081
Grégoire LitsInstitut Langage et Communication, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Andreas LöschelFaculty of Management and Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Alberto López OrtegaDepartment of Communication Science and Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2765-7232
Carlos Lopez-VillavicencioDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, La Molina, Peru.
Nigel Mantou LouDepartment of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1363-833X
Chloe H LucasSchool of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0834-1622
Kristin Lunz-TrujilloHarvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5240-518X
Mathew D MarquesSchool of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5486-650X
Sabrina J MayerInstitute of Political Science, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Ryan McKayDepartment of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
Hugo MercierInstitut Jean Nicod, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0575-7913
Julia MetagDepartment of Communication, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany.
Taciano L MilfontSchool of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6838-6307
Joanne M MillerDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9823-5005
Panagiotis MitkidisDepartment of Management, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9495-7369
Fredy Monge-RodríguezDepartamento de Psicología, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, La Molina, Peru.
Matt MottaDepartment of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2824-6833
Iryna MudraDepartment of Journalism and Mass Communication, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Zarja MuršičOffice for Quality Assurance, Analyses and Reporting, Project EUTOPIA, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Jennifer NamutebiDepartment of Management and Supply Chain Studies, Nkumba University, Entebbe, Uganda.
Eryn J NewmanSchool of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Jonas P NitschkeDepartment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3244-8585
Ntui-Njock Vincent NtuiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Daniel NwogwugwuCommunication Arts Programme, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8873-4014
Thomas OstermannDepartment of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2695-0701
Tobias OtterbringDepartment of Management, University of Adger, Kristiansand, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0283-8777
Jaime Palmer-HagueFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Myrto PantaziCenter for Social and Cultural Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Philip PärnametsDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8360-9097
Paolo Parra SaianiDepartment of International and Political Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0227-4411
Mariola Paruzel-CzachuraInstitute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.
Michal ParzuchowskiInstitute of Psychology, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8960-0277
Yuri G PavlovInstitute of Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3896-5145
Adam R PearsonDepartment of Psychological Science, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA.
Myron A PennerFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Charlotte R PenningtonSchool of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5259-642X
Katerina PetkanopoulouDepartment of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.
Marija B PetrovićLaboratory for Research of Individual Differences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Jan PfänderInstitut Jean Nicod, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-4389-2807
Dinara PisarevaDepartment of Political Science and International Relations, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Adam PloszajScience Studies Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Karolína PoliakováInstitute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ekaterina ProniziusDepartment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1446-196X
Katarzyna Pypno-BlajdaInstitute of Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3024-3535
Diwa Malaya A QuiñonesDepartment of Psychology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Pekka RäsänenDepartment of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-6355
Adrian RauchfleischGraduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1232-083X
Felix G RebitschekHarding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7653-8278
Cintia Refojo SeroneroDepartment of Scientific and Innovation Culture, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
Gabriel RêgoNational Institute of Science and Technology on Social and Affective Neuroscience, São Paulo, Brazil.
James P ReynoldsSchool of Psychology, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Joseph RocheSchool of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Simone RödderDepartment of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Jan Philipp RöerDepartment of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-3433
Robert M RossDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-1675
Isabelle RuinInstitut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble-INP, Grenoble, France.
Osvaldo SantosInstitute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ricardo R SantosInstitute of Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Philipp SchmidInstitute for Planetary Health Behaviour, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2966-0806
Stefan SchulreichDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Bermond ScogginsSchool of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Amena SharafIndependent Researcher, Cairo, Egypt.
Justin Sheria NfundikoDépartement de Sociologie, Université Officielle de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Emily ShuckburghCambridge Zero, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9206-3444
Johan SixDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Nevin SolakPsychology Department, TED University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8391-9172
Leonhard SpäthDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bram SpruytSociology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Olivier StandaertInstitut Langage et Communication, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Samantha K StanleySchool of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1272-5768
Gert StormsDepartment of Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4100-8725
Noel StrahmInstitute of Sociology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-8869
Stylianos SyropoulosDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5622-1417
Barnabas SzasziELTE Institute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7078-2712
Ewa SzumowskaBehavior in Crisis Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4181-6175
Mikihito TanakaFaculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Claudia Teran-EscobarLaboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France.
Boryana TodorovaDepartment of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-498X
Abdoul Kafid TokoSchool of Collective Intelligence, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco.
Renata TokrriDepartment of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, Milto Tutulani, Tirana, Albania.
Daniel Toribio-FlorezSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9706-709X
Manos TsakirisDepartment of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-7576
Michael TyralaDivision of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-8319
Özden Melis UluğSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
Ijeoma Chinwe UzomaMolecular Haematology and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Jochem van NoordFaculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Christiana VardaDepartment of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1698-0536
Steven VerheyenDepartment of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6778-6744
Iris VilaresDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Madalina VlasceanuDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2138-1968
Andreas von BubnoffFaculty of Technology and Bionics, Rhine-Waal University, Kleve, Germany.
Iain WalkerSchool of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Izabela WarwasDepartment of Labor and Social Policy, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Marcel WeberDepartment of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Tim WeningerDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Mareike WestfalInstitute for Management & Organization, Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany.
Florian WintterlinDepartment of Communication, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1837-6079
Adrian Dominik WojcikFaculty of Philosophy and Social Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
Ziqian XiaSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-0024
Jinliang XieSchool of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Ewa Zegler-PoleskaScience Studies Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7574-5985
Amber ZenklusenInstitute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8243-4342
Rolf A ZwaanDepartment of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9967-7879

Funding

Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung) FWF, I3381Austrian Science Fund FWF W 1262Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) OPP1144Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) BE 3970/12-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) RE 4752/1-1EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 822166John Templeton Foundation (JTF) #61378John Templeton Foundation (JTF) #62631RCUK | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ES/X000702/1Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) P500PS_202935Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) PR00P1_193128Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) VAR-EXP
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Abstract

Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking. We found variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual- and country-level variables, including political orientation. While there is no 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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Policy MakingPublic OpinionScienceTrustAdultDecision MakingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPolitics

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PMID39833424
PMCPMC7617525

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