Research
Included below are major publications and key references for each research stream at the Centre. These include seminal articles, as well as recent articles from Centre affiliates.
G20 national values & UN SDGs
A joint-commissioned report exploring the G20 members states’ national values and their implications for policy development relating to the UN SDGs.
Download the report: G20 National Values & UN SDGs
What do we value?
A report on how our values influence everyday behaviours.
Download the report: What Do We Value?
Seminal Research
Personal Values:
Foundational papers
Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theory and empirical tests in 20 countries. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 25) (pp. 1-65). New York: Academic Press. doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60281-6
Schwartz, S.H. (1996). Value priorities and behavior: Applying a theory of integrated value systems. In C. Seligman, J.M. Olson, & M.P. Zanna (Eds.), The Psychology of Values: The Ontario Symposium, Vol. 8 (pp.1-24). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schwartz, S.H., Verkasalo, M., Antonovsky, A., & Sagiv, L. (1997). Value priorities and social desirability: Much substance, some style. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 3-18.
Schwartz, S. H., & Bardi, A. (2001). Value hierarchies across cultures: Taking a similarities perspective. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 32, 268-290. doi: 10.1177/0022022101032003002
Roccas, S., Sagiv, L., Schwartz, S. H., & Knafo, A. (2002). The big five personality factors and personal values. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 28(6), 789-801.
Bardi, A., & Schwartz, S. H. (2003). Values and behavior: Strength and structure of relations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1207-1220. doi:10.1177/0146167203254602
Bardi, A., Lee, J. A., Hofmann-Towfigh, N., & Soutar, G. (2009). The structure of intraindividual value change. Journal of personality and social psychology, 97(5), 913.
Bardi, A., & Goodwin, R. (2011). The dual route to value change: Individual processes and cultural moderators. Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 42(2), 271-287.
Fischer, R., & Boer, D. (2015). Motivational Basis of Personality Traits: A Meta‐Analysis of Value‐Personality Correlations. Journal of personality, 83(5), 491-510.
Parks-Leduc, L., Feldman, G., & Bardi, A. (2015). Personality traits and personal values: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(1), 3-29.
Recent theoretical developments
Schwartz, S. H. (2017). The refined theory of basic values. In S. Roccas & L. Sagiv (Eds.), Values and behavior: Taking a cross-cultural perspective (pp. 51-72). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Lee, J. A., Sneddon, J. N., Daly, T. M., Schwartz, S. H., Soutar, G. N., & Louviere, J. J. (2017). Testing and Extending Schwartz Refined Value Theory Using a Best–Worst Scaling Approach. Assessment, 1073191116683799.
Borg, I., Bardi, A., & Schwartz, S. H. (2017). Does the value circle exist within persons or only across persons? Journal of Personality, 85, 151-162. doi:10.1111/jopy.12228
Maio, G. R. (2016). The psychology of human values. Psychology Press.
Schwartz, S. H. (2015). Basic individual values: Sources and consequences. In D. Sander and T. Brosch (Eds.), Handbook of value (pp.63-84). Oxford: UK, Oxford University Press.
Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Vecchione, M., Davidov, E., Fischer, R., Beierlein, C., … & Dirilen-Gumus, O. (2012). Refining the theory of basic individual values. Journal of personality and social psychology, 103(4), 663.
Maio, G. R. (2010). Mental representations of social values. Advances in experimental social psychology, 42, 1-43.
Values measures
Best-worst values refined (BWVr): Lee, J. A., Sneddon, J. N., Daly, T. M., Schwartz, S. H., Soutar, G. N., & Louviere, J. J. (2017). Testing and Extending Schwartz Refined Value Theory Using a Best–Worst Scaling Approach. Assessment, 1073191116683799.
Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ 40): Cieciuch, J., & Schwartz, S. H. (2012). The number of distinct basic values and their structure assessed by PVQ-40. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 321-328. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2012.655817
Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-RR 57): Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Vecchione, M., Davidov, E., Fischer, R., Beierlein, C., … & Dirilen-Gumus, O. (2012). Refining the theory of basic individual values. Journal of personality and social psychology, 103(4), 663.
Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ 21 ESS): Bilsky, W., Janik, M., & Schwartz, S. H. (2011). The structural organization of human values – Evidence from three rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42, 759-776. doi:10.1177/0022022110362757
Schwartz Values Best Worst Scale (SVBWS): Lee, J. A., Soutar, G., & Louviere, J. (2008). The best–worst scaling approach: an alternative to Schwartz’s values survey. Journal of personality assessment, 90(4), 335-347.
Schwartz Values Survey (SVS): Schwartz, S. H., & Boehnke, K. (2004). Evaluating the structure of human values with confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 230-255.
Values measures for children and adolescents
Lee, J. A., Ye, S., Sneddon, J. N., Collins, P. R., & Daniel, E. (2017). Does the intra-individual structure of values exist in young children?. Personality and Individual Differences, 110, 125-130.
Collins, P. R., Lee, J. A., Sneddon, J. N., & Döring, A. K. (2017). Examining the consistency and coherence of values in young children using a new Animated Values Instrument. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 279-285.
Döring, A. K., Blauensteiner, A., Aryus, K., Drögekamp, L., & Bilsky, W. (2010). Assessing values at an early age: The picture-based value survey for children (PBVS–C). Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(5), 439-448.
Cultural Values:
Foundational papers
Schwartz, S.H. (1999). Cultural value differences: Some implications for work. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 48, 23-47
Schwartz, S. H. (2006). A theory of cultural value orientations: Explication and applications. Comparative Sociology, 5, 137-182.
Licht, A. N., Goldschmidt, C., & Schwartz, S. H. (2007). Culture rules: The foundations of the rule of law and other norms of governance. Journal of Comparative Economics, 35, 659-688.
Schwartz, S. H. (2014). National culture as value orientations: Consequences of value differences and cultural distance. In V. Ginsburgh & D. Throsby (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Vol.2 (pp. 547-586). Elsevier/North Holland.
Recent Publications
2022:
Coelho, G. L. H., Hanel, P. H. P., Maio, G. R., & Johansen, M.. Mental representations of values and behaviors. European Journal of Personality (online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1177/08902070211034385.
Lee, J. A., Bardi, A., Gerrans, P., Sneddon, J., van Herk, H., Evers, U., & Schwartz, S. H. (2022). Are value-behavior relations stronger than previously thought? It depends on value importance. European Journal of Personality, 36(2), 133-148. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hyn2e.
Peel, Dominic; Helen Louise Berry, Linda Courtenay Botterill, Geoff Cockfield. ‘Exploring domains of contemporary Australian agrarianism’ Journal of Sociology, (online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1177/14407833211044772.
Schwartz, S. H., & Cieciuch, J. Measuring the refined theory of individual values in 49 cultural groups: Psychometrics of the revised portrait value questionnaire. Assessment, (online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1177/1073191121998760.
Wolf, L. J., Thorne, S., Foad, C., Iosifyan, M., Taylor, S., Costin, V., Karremans, J., Haddock, G., & Maio, G. R. (2022). The salience of children increases adult prosocial values. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(1), 160-169. DOI: 10.1177/19485506211007605.
2021:
Coelho, G.L.H., Hanel, P.H.P., Vilar, R., Monteiro, RP., Cardoso, F. J. V., & Gouveia, V. V. (2021). Who Prioritizes the Economy over Health? The Role of Political Orientation and Human Values. Personality and Individual Differences, 179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110890
Göbel, K., Makarova, E., Neuber, K. & Kaqinari, T. (2021). Der Übergang zur digitalen Lehre an den Universitäten Duisburg-Essen und Basel in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie. In U. Dittler & C. Kreidl (Hrsg.). Wie Corona die Hochschullehre verändert – Erfahrungen und Gedanken aus der Krise (p. 351-374). Wiesbaden: Springer Nature Verlag.
Lake, Joshua, Paul Gerrans, Joanne Sneddon, Katie Attwell, Linda Botterill, and Julie Anne Lee (2021) ‘We’re all in this together, but for different reasons: social values and social actions that affect COVID-19 preventative behaviors’ Personality and Individual Differences doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110868
Makarova, E., Döring, A. K., Auer, P., ‘t Gilde, J., & Birman, D. (2021). School adjustment of ethnic minority youth: a qualitative and quantitative research synthesis of family-related risk and resource factors. Educational Review (published online 15 April 2021).
Vilar, R., Liu, J., Coelho, G. L. de H., Hanel, P. H. P., Araújo, R. De C. R., Monteiro, R. P., & Gouveia, V. V. (2021). On the road: Personality and values of sojourners. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01526-9
Wolf, L. J., Hanel, P. H. P., & Maio, G. R. (2021). Measured and manipulated effects of value similarity on prejudice and well-being. European Review of Social Psychology, 32(1), 123-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1810403
Wolf, L., Thorne, S., Iosifian, M., Foad, C., Taylor, S., Costin, V., Karremans, J., Haddock, G., & Maio, G. (2021). The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211007605
Zacharopoulos, G., Hanel, P. H. P., Wolfradt, U., Maio, G. R., & Linden, D. E. J. (2021). The Relations between Pathological Personality Traits and Human Values. Personality and Individual Differences, 179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110766
2020:
Czyżkowska, A, Cieciuch, J. (2020). Marital goals: Circular value-based model and measurement. Current Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00787-0.
Daniel, E., Lee, J., Benish-Weisman, M. & Sneddon, J. (online 14 March, 2020) “Value Profiles during Middle childhood: Developmental Processes and Social Behavior”, Child Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13362.
Feldman, G. (2020). Personal values and moral foundations: Examining relations and joint prediction of moral variables. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326979593_Personal_values_and_moral_foundations_Examining_relations_and_joint_prediction_of_moral_variables.
Grigoryan, L., & Schwartz, S. H. (in press). Values and attitudes towards cultural diversity: Exploring alternative moderators of the value–attitude link. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, DOI:10.1177/1368430220929077.
Knafo-Noam, A., Barni, D., & Schwartz, S. H. (2020). From “value transmission” to a complex but realistic model of parent-child value similarity: Reciprocal influences, genetics and environmental antecedents. In L. E. Jensen (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of moral development: an interdisciplinary perspective (Ch. 10 ). New York: Oxford University Press. Doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676049.013.12.
Knafo-Noam, A., Barni, D., & Schwartz, S. H. (2020). From “value transmission” to a complex but realistic model of parent-child value similarity: Reciprocal influences, genetics and environmental antecedents. In L. E. Jensen (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of moral development: an interdisciplinary perspective (Ch. 10 ). New York: Oxford University Press. Doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676049.013.12.
Knafo-Noam, A., Barni, D., & Schwartz, S. H. (2020). Parent–Child Value Similarity. In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development.
Rahn, O. G., Soutar, G. N., & Lee, J. A. (2020). Perceived values-congruence and employees’ change beliefs. Journal of Management & Organization, 1-19.
Skimina, E., Cieciuch, J. (2020). Explaining everyday behaviours and situational context by personality metatraits and higher-order values. European Journal of Personality, 34, 29-59. DOI: 10.1002/per.2230.
Smith, D. T., Attwell, K., & Evers, U. (2020). Majority acceptance of vaccination and mandates across the political spectrum in Australia. Politics, 40(2), 189-206.
Sneddon, J., Evers, U., Lee, J. (online, 26 February, 2020) “Personal values and choice of charitable cause: An exploration of committed donors’ giving behavior”, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764020908339.
To, C., Leslie, L. M., Torelli, C. J., & Stoner, J. L. (2020). Culture and social hierarchy: Collectivism as a driver of the relationship between power and status. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 157, 159-176.
Twito, L., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2020). Beyond culture and the family: Evidence from twin studies on the genetic and environmental contribution to values. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 112, 135-143.
Vecchione, M., Schwartz, S. H., Davidov, E., Cieciuch, J., Alessandri, G., & Marsicano, G. (in press). Stability and change of basic personal values in early adolescence: A two-year longitudinal study. Journal of Personality, doi:10.1111/jopy.12502.
Vishkin, A., Schwartz, S. H., Ben-Nun Bloom, P., Solak, N., & Tamir, M. (2020). Religiosity and desired emotions: Belief maintenance or prosocial facilitation? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1090—1106. doi.org/10.1177/0146167219895140.
Yoo, J., Miyamoto, Y., Evers, U., Lee, J. & Wong, N. (online 6 Feb 2020) “Is Materialism an enemy of relational well-being? Culture and social motives may matter” Journal of Happiness Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00227-7.
2019:
Arciniega, L.M., Stanley, L.J., Puga-Méndez, D., Obregón-Schael, D., & Politi-Salame, I. (2019). The relationship between individual work values and unethical decision-making and behavior at work. Journal of Business Ethics 158(4), 1133-1148. doi: 10.1007/s10551-017-3764-3
Arciniega, L.M., Woehr, D.J., & Del Rincón, G. (2019). Examining regional variability in work ethic within Mexico: Individual difference or shared value. International Journal of Psychology 54, 431-438. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12480
Benish-Weisman, Maya, Ella Daniel, Joanne Sneddon, Julie Lee (2019) “The relations between values and prosocial behavior among children: The Moderating Role of Age”, Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 241-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.019
Botterill, Linda Courtenay and Alan Fenna (2019) Interrogating Public Policy Theory: A Political Values Perspective Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK.
Lebedeva, N., Schwartz, S. H., Van de Vijver, F. J., Plucker, J. (2019). Domains of everyday creativity and personal values. Frontiers in Psychology, Cultural Psychology, 9, 2681-2697. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02681.
Lee, J. A., Sneddon, J. N., Daly, T. M., Schwartz, S.H., Soutar, G. N., Jordan J. (2019). Testing and extending Schwartz refined value theory using a best–worst scaling approach. Assessment, 26, 166-180. doi:10.1177/1073191116683799.
Park, J. K., Torelli, C. J., Monga, A. S. B., & John, D. R. (2019). Value instantiation: how to overcome the value conflict in promoting luxury brands with CSR initiatives. Marketing Letters, 30(3-4), 307-319.
Skimina, E., Cieciuch, J., Schwartz, S. H., Davidov, E., & Algesheimer, R. (2019). Behavioral signatures of values in everyday behavior in retrospective and real-time self-reports. Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, 19 February. doi: org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00281.
Sortheix, F. M., Parker, P., Lechner, C. M., & Schwartz, S. H. (2019). Changes in young Europeans’ values during the global financial crisis. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 15-25. doi.org/10.1177/1948550617732610.
Vishkin, A., Ben-Nun Bloom, P., Schwartz, S. H., Solak, N., & Tamir, M. (2019). Religiosity and emotion regulation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50, 1050-1074. doi.org/10.1177/0022022119880341.
Ye, S., Lee, J., Sneddon, J. & Soutar, G. (online 23 October, 2019) “Personifying destinations: A personal values approach”, Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287519878508.
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