The footnotes lead to some fascinating context into the associated research field. The World Values Survey, which started in 1981, is "the largest non-commerc

The footnotes lead to some fascinating context into the associated research field. The World Values Survey, which started in 1981, is "the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones". "WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire" . Their latest research study examines "Values In a Time Of Crisis" & the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on values. "a natural experiment indeed—to study how people’s moral values behave during times of crises. In the face of lacking evidence, we cannot take it for granted that the glacial stability of values observed in normal times continues throughout the Corona crisis. This uncertainty opens new territory and raises several imminent research questions: - Does the Corona pandemic impact on people’s values? In other words, do people change their values under the imprint of this crisis? - If yes, how massive are these changes? And if these changes are massive, in what direction do they move? - How enduring are these changes, once an end of the crisis is at sight and once its economic consequences are overcome: do people’s moral values revert back to their old setpoint or does the crisis leave a lasting impact?" http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEventsShow.jsp?ID=416 http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEventsShow.jsp?ID=416