Join us on May 29 for a WVS webinar co-organized with ISA RC20 Comparative Sociology on Globalization, populism, and climate skepticism: untangling varieties and pathways. Drawing on cross-national survey data, the talk will unpack how different forms of populist attitudes shape public responses to climate change and environmental policy.

Join us on May 26 for the next webinar, where Liwei Jiang (NVIDIA) explores whether language models can reason about individual human values and preferences, and what this means for pluralistic AI alignment. The session will present a new benchmark for evaluating how AI systems navigate disagreements, moral diversity, and personalized value judgments across users.

WVS webinar on May 18 where Karin Bage (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) explores how reproductive agency relates to life satisfaction, health, and happiness, with important gendered implications across sub-Saharan Africa.

WVS webinar on April 15 with Ioannis Petrakis (Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University) discussing how subjective well-being reduces ideological radicalization. This study shows that higher life satisfaction can act as a psychological buffer against extremist attitudes. Drawing on World Values Survey data, it highlights the role of social cohesion and economic security in strengthening democratic resilience.

WVS webinar discussing with Patricia Justino (UNU-Wider, Finland) the global erosion of interpersonal and institutional trust, its impact on social cohesion and governance, and the challenges of rebuilding effective social contracts in uncertain times. Professor Patricia Justino is a development economist who works at the interface between Development Economics and Political Science. She is a leading expert on political violence and development, and the co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network. She is currently Deputy Director at UNU-WIDER and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, UK (on leave).