Background:

The aim of the current study was the investigate the types of misinformation specific to a contentious science topic (GMOs) people are most susceptible to and the processes which are driving these perceptions. Survey data from 221 North Queensland, Australia residents was collected. Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the James Cook University Human Ethics Commitee (Approval number H8292). The study had a within-subject design. Participants were shown six misinformation passages. Three of the passages were about GMOs impact on health. The other three passages were about GMOs impact on the environment. Each topic had either an affective, cognitive or combines affective and cognitive frame. Variables of interest were demographics, attitudes towards GMOs, cultural worldviews, perceived accuracy of misinformation presented and emotive and cognitive processing.

This data record contains:

2 files - survey data in .sav and .csv file formats.

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Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Qualtrics survey software was used to collect the data

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyze the data: SPSS version 29.0 was used to analyze the data