Schweiker MarcelAbdul-Zahra AmarAndré MaíraAl-Atrash FarahAlKhatri HananAlprianti Rea RiskyAlsaad HayderAmin RuchaAmpatzi EleniArsano AlphaYacobAzadeh MontazamiAzar ElieBahareh BannazadehBatagarawa AminaBecker SusanneBuonocore CarolinaCao BinChoi Joon-HoChun ChungyoonDaanen HeinDamiati Siti AisyahDaniel LyrianDeVecchi RenataDhaka ShivrajDomínguez-Amarillo SamuelDudkiewicz EdytaEdappilly Lakshmi PrabhaFernández-Agüera JesicaFolkerts MireilleFrijns ArjanGaona GabrielGarg VishalGauthier StephanieJabbari Shahla GhafariHarimi DjamilaHellwig Runa T.Huebner Gesche M.Jin QuanJowkar MinaKania RenateKim JungsooKing NelsonKingma BorisKoerniawan M. DonnyKolarik JakubKumar ShailendraKwok AlisonLamberts RobertoLaska MartaLee M. C. JefreyLee YoonheeLindermayr VanessaMahaki MohammadbagherMarcel-Okafor UdochukwuMarín-Restrepo LauraMarquardsen AnnaMartellotta FrancescoMathur JyotirmayMcGill GráinneMino-Rodriguez IsabelMoujalled BassamMou DiNakajima MiaNg EdwardOkafor MarcellinusOuyang WanluPapst de Abreu Ana LigiaPérez-Fargallo AlexisRajapaksha IndrikaRamos GreiciRashid SaifReinhart Christoph F.Rivera Ma. IsabelSalmanzadeh MazyarSchakibEkbatan KarinSchiavon StefanoShooshtarian SalmanShukuya MasanoriSoebarto VeronicaSuhendriTahsildoost MohammadTartarini FedericoTeli DespoinaTewari PriyamThapa SamarTrebilcock MaureenTrojan JörgTukur Ruqayyatu B.Voelker ConradYam YeungYang LiuZomorodian Zahra SadatZapata-Lancaster GabrielaZhai YongchaoZhu YingxinOlweny Mark R. O.2019-12-032019-12-032019doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12280/2591Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-) comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper knowledge on contextual infuences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database ofers potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/Thermal discomfortScales ProjectThermal perception scalesEnergy use in buildingsTthermostatsOoccupantsArticle