Extended Data Table 8 Correlates of appropriateness of political action ratings in study 4

From: Historical narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic are motivationally biased

  1. Means and standard deviations of appropriateness ratings across countries plus their correlation with the desires to punish politicians and scientists for how they handled the pandemic, the desire to dismantle the entire political order (need for chaos), intention to vote in the next elections and complying with future pandemic regulations (r refers to Pearson correlations, P values in parentheses). The % columns indicate the share of participants indicating the respective desires or intentions above the respective scale midpoint (for example, the share of people with a desire to punish politicians of 5 or higher on the seven-point scale).