WVS Webinar Series: Understanding Global Values and Social Change

The WVS Webinar Series is a monthly online event designed to explore key global issues through the lens of the World Values Survey. Organized by the World Values Survey Association, this series brings together experts, researchers, and analysts, providing a dynamic platform for exploring how values and beliefs shape societies across time and regions.

Each session features researchers who utilize WVS data—alone or in combination with other datasets—to examine critical social, political, and cultural issues. The topics covered span a wide spectrum, from democratic governance, social trust, and economic development to shifting cultural norms and public attitudes toward global challenges. Alongside substantive analysis, the series also addresses methodological advancements, offering discussions on innovative approaches to studying values through large-scale survey data.

The webinars are designed to be engaging and interactive, with research presentations followed by discussions and audience Q&A. This format encourages an exchange of ideas among academics, policymakers, students, and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of global value shifts and their implications.

Held on a monthly basis, the WVS Webinar Series is free to attend, making cutting-edge research accessible to a broad audience. Recordings of past sessions are also available for those interested in revisiting key discussions.

• 3 July 2026 — Political Regimes, Religious Dominance, and Economic Preferences: Insights from the World Values Survey and Global State of Democracy Indices — Vivek Jadhav, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/J7Y5K5suSQe-EhwEo0b1Mw
• 30 June 2026 — Individualism–Collectivism: Reconstructing Hofstede’s Dimension of Cultural Differences — Plamen Akaliyski, Lingnan University. Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6kv6RsQnS8-79loBDUBnRA 
• 23 June 2026 — Economic Inequality and Unfairness Evaluations of Income Distribution Negatively Predict Political and Social Trust: Evidence From Latin America Over 23 Years — Efrain Garcia-Sanchez, University of Granada / Stanford SPARQ and Juan Diego Garcia-Castro, University of Costa Rica. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRObbYFwnE
• 17 June 2026 — The Role of Data and Insights on Public Values and Attitudes in International Policymaking — Kirstie Hewlett, Policy Institute, King’s College London and Paolo Morini, Policy Institute, King’s College London. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qWfwaBvm1I
• 29 May 2026 — Globalization, populism, and climate skepticism: untangling varieties and pathways — Jessica Kim, University of Pittsburgh. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bazgoj75XFE
• 26 May 2026 — Can Language Models Reason about Individualistic Human Values and Preferences? — Liwei Jiang, NVIDIA. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKXtMBPFQmc
• 18 May 2026 — Is reproductive agency associated with subjective well-being? A population-based cross-sectional study among men and women in four sub-Saharan African countries using the WVS — Karin Båge, Karolinska Institutet. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtglmneBPzY
• 5 May 2026 — Trust and Inequality of Opportunities — Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo, UNED and Francisco Herreros Vazquez, IPP-CSIC. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrX6FIlUPFQ
• 15 April 2026 — Beyond Grievance: Happiness as a Psychological Buffer to Radicalization — Ioannis Petrakis, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfcaSGPE7xM
• 8 April 2026 — Trust in a Changing World: Social Cohesion and the Social Contract in Uncertain Times — Patricia Justino, UNU-WIDER. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRM9McXtwY
• 15 July 2025 — Autocratic Modernity? Psychological Cracks in a Dystopian Model — Christian Welzel, Leuphana University Lüneburg. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2fVId5yew8
• 27 June 2025 — Understanding Global Attitudes Toward Abortion: Insights from the World Values Survey — Amy Adamczyk, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMxZI_24Tw
• 18 June 2025 — Ideological Extremism and Polarization on a Global Scale — Francesco Rigoli, City St George’s, University of London. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyqhRBMJxU
• 27 May 2025 — Measuring National Parochialism and Explaining Its Individual Variations Using Survey Data — Junji Kageyama, Meikai University. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP6yREjZxno
• 20 May 2025 — What Predicts Homonegativity in Southeast Asian Countries? Evidence from the World Values Survey — Xavier Javines Bilon, University of the Philippines Diliman. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRS5Eb0BTtM
• 29 April 2025 — Trust Without Cause: Predisposition of Personality and Chinese Citizen Trust in Government — Yunsoo Lee, Shandong University. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrDGcOFoO8c
• 25 April 2025 — The Elite-Citizen Gap in International Organization Legitimacy — Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University and Soetkin Verhaegen, Maastricht University. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9hGIKPcSQI
• 8 April 2025 — The Persistence of Traditional Values and the Limited Global Appeal of Democracy — Ursula Hoffmann-Lange, University of Bamberg. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzcePrNflUQ
• 25 March 2025 — How the WVS Data Have Helped to Systematise Different Cultural Models — Anneli Kaasa, University of Tartu. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkvy3g-J2U
• 27 February 2025 — Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Culture: The Revised Minkov-Hofstede Model Expanded Through the World Values Survey — Michael Minkov, Varna University of Management. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJcguhW_5Y