Gregg:

Thanks . . . !!

1) Plato (not Aristotle)

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She has  
written ten books, the latest of which is Plato at the Googleplex: Why  
Philosophy Won’t Go Away (Pantheon, 2014). She has won numerous awards  
for her fiction and scholarship, including a MacArthur fellowship. In  
2015, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack  
Obama. Goldstein is a laureate of the International Academy of  
Humanism, a project of the Council for Secular Humanism, and an  
Honorary Director of the Center for Inquiry.

2) Social Psychology (not Aristotle)

Over the past century, various value models have been proposed. To  
determine which value model best predicts prosocial behavior, mental  
health, and pro-environmental behavior, we subjected seven value  
models to a hierarchical regression analysis. A sample of University  
students (N = 271) completed the Portrait Value Questionnaire  
(Schwartz et al., 2012), the Basic Value Survey (Gouveia et al.,  
2008), and the Social Value Orientation scale (Van Lange et al.,  
1997). Additionally, they completed the Values Survey Module (Hofstede  
and Minkov, 2013), Inglehart’s (1977) materialism–postmaterialism  
items, the Study of Values, fourth edition (Allport et al., 1960;  
Kopelman et al., 2003), and the Rokeach (1973) Value Survey. However,  
because the reliability of the latter measures was low, only the  
PVQ-RR, the BVS, and the SVO where entered into our analysis. Our  
results provide empirical evidence that the PVQ-RR is the strongest  
predictor of all three outcome variables, explaining variance above  
and beyond the other two instruments in almost all cases. The BVS  
significantly predicted prosocial and pro-environmental behavior,  
while the SVO only explained variance in pro-environmental behavior.

Shalom Schwartz (PVQ-RR) -- https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Shalom-5FH.-5FSchwartz&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=m1zWGDD0bIyGCCrPOfqYMQD54Gf3dBJhAWkO1DyKkTc&s=ZBC__j8p9De2tHAF85460QszVP2GlXu2Jqim_Hd2mxM&e=

Shalom H. Schwartz (Hebrew: שלום שוורץ‎) is a social psychologist,  
cross-cultural researcher and creator of the Theory of Basic Human  
Values (universal values as latent motivations and needs). He also  
contributed to the formulation of the values scale in the context of  
social learning theory and social cognitive theory.

After completing his master's degree in social psychology and group  
development at Columbia University and completing his rabbinical  
studies, Schwartz received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the  
University of Michigan, and subsequently taught in the sociology  
department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1973 became  
a professor. From 1971-73, Schwartz was a visiting lecturer in the  
department of psychology at the Hebrew University. In 1979, Schwartz  
moved to Israel with his wife and three children. He joined the  
department of psychology at the Hebrew University, where he holds the  
post of Leon and Clara Sznajderman Professor Emeritus of Psychology.  
He is now retired, but continues his research activity, as well as  
developing and promoting his Basic Human Values Theory.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Schwartz was following the studies of  
Geert Hofstede about human values and built upon them in his research  
on pro-social and altruistic behavior. His research has since included  
studies on the development and consequences of a range of behavioral  
attitudes and orientations, such as religious belief, political  
orientation and voting, social group relations, consumer behavior, as  
well as the conceptualization of human values across cultures.

Schwartz is a fellow of the American Psychological Foundation and is a  
member of the American Sociological Foundation, European Association  
of Experimental Social Psychology, the Israel Psychological  
Association, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the  
Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is president of the  
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He  
coordinates an international project in more than 70 countries that  
studies the antecedents and consequences of individual differences in  
value priorities and the relations of cultural dimensions of values to  
societal characteristics and policies. His value theory and  
instruments are part of the ongoing, biannual European Social Survey.

Mark

Quoting "Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi List,
>   Thought I would share two articles on human values. The first is  
> from a secular humanist who explores the meaning of matter and  
> mattering. The second is an empirical article exploring which value  
> systems correlate with “better” outcomes.
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.secularhumanism.org_index.php_articles_8609-23disqus-5Fthread&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=m1zWGDD0bIyGCCrPOfqYMQD54Gf3dBJhAWkO1DyKkTc&s=zbujjiyX4TWB2VFXhGpPfrAxdVJF66VNhNK9wxEzJXc&e=>
> Mattering  
> Matters<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.secularhumanism.org_index.php_articles_8609-23disqus-5Fthread&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=m1zWGDD0bIyGCCrPOfqYMQD54Gf3dBJhAWkO1DyKkTc&s=zbujjiyX4TWB2VFXhGpPfrAxdVJF66VNhNK9wxEzJXc&e=>
>
> An Empirical Comparison of Human Value  
> Models<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.frontiersin.org_articles_10.3389_fpsyg.2018.01643_full-3Futm-5Fsource-3DF-2DAAE-26utm-5Fmedium-3DEMLF-26utm-5Fcampaign-3DMRK-5F786034-5F69-5FPsycho-5F20181004-5Farts-5FA&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=m1zWGDD0bIyGCCrPOfqYMQD54Gf3dBJhAWkO1DyKkTc&s=5OMQxGyNemnVclV461oG2fYOjYtpe3RUsKcrkcaVXuw&e=>
>
> May you all matter in the best way possible 😊!
> Gregg
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