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 > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: > write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1