Shalom H. Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem and Scientific Supervisor of the Socio-Cultural Laboratory at the National
Research University—Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He obtained his PhD in
social psychology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and taught at the University
of Wisconsin until he moved to Israel in 1979. He is past president of the International
Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and recipient of the Israel Prize in psychology.
He is the author of the human values scale included in the biennial surveys of
representative national samples of the European Social Survey. He began to search for
whether there was a meaningful, perhaps universal, set of basic values in 1982, never
imagining where this would lead. He has since collaborated with some 150 researchers
who have applied his theories and methods for measuring values in over 80 countries.
Publications on his values research appear in international journals in social psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, developmental psychology, political psychology, sociology,
education, law, and economics.
