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Article History

Received: 9 June 2024

Accepted: 14 November 2025

First Online: 1 December 2025

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: All research activities, including study design, data collection methods and analysis, were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and complied with local regulations and the guidelines issued by the University of Edinburgh for studies involving human participants. Ethical approval was sought and obtained before the research commencing from the Research Ethics Committee of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) of the University of Edinburgh. The approval was confirmed by the committee on 8th April 2022. No ID/number is assigned to applications by the committee.

: Following the stipulations of our research ethics application, written informed consent was sought and obtained from all participants, during the whole duration of the data collection (1 June 2022–31 May 2023). The first two screens of the Tolerant Futures interactive informed perspective participants about the project’s aims, procedures and the fact that they were free to interrupt their participation at any time without consequences. It informed them that, while engaging with Tolerant Futures , they would be asked questions and that, while no personal data would be collected, their answers would be stored anonymously, analysed for purposes of research and published in peer-reviewed journals and other academic and public outlets. Only by confirming their full understanding and agreement, it would be possible for an individual to proceed to the next screen and start using the Tolerant Futures interactive.