World Values Survey Association

📢 WVSA Webinar - Jointly with RC20 Comparative Sociology of International Sociological Association (ISA)

🗓️ May 5, 2026
🕐 13:00 CET
📌 Topic: Trust and Inequality of Opportunities
🔗 Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FQ0DK6hWQNK_FZN0qp6R0Q

How do unequal life chances shape social trust? Why does trust weaken when people perceive that success depends less on effort and more on family background, inherited advantage, or luck?

In this webinar, Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo from the UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain, and Francisco Herreros Vázquez from Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain, will discuss how inequality of opportunity affects the social foundations of trust.

Drawing on European Social Survey data, the webinar will address the distinction between inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities, and reflect on the broader implications of unequal life chances for social cohesion, fairness, and democratic societies.

🔗 Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00323217241282846

🌍 Welcome to the WVS Webinar Series 2026!

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar:

📌 Political Regimes, Religious Dominance, and Economic Preferences: Insights from the World Values Survey and Global State of Democracy Indices

👤 Speaker: Dr. Vivek Jadhav (Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India)

📅 July 3, 2026

🕒 12:00 UTC | 14:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

This webinar explores how political regimes, income levels, and religious dominance shape attitudes toward freedom, equality, and income inequality. Drawing on World Values Survey data and Global State of Democracy indices, it highlights how institutional and socio-religious contexts influence economic preferences across societies.

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nRfI6zWCR4ewH11F2WBzpQ

Full paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ssqu.13482

🌍 Welcome to the WVS Webinar Series 2026!
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar:

📌 Can Language Models Reason about Individualistic Human Values and Preferences?
👤 Speaker: Liwei Jiang (University of Washington)
📅 May 26, 2026
🕒 14:00 UTC | 16:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

This webinar explores whether language models can reason about individual human values beyond demographic categories. Using a novel dataset derived from the World Values Survey, it highlights key limitations in current AI systems and the challenges of achieving truly individual-centered and globally equitable AI alignment.

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YmX3iLaFRDWvsJSS0uBKlw
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03868

🌍 Welcome to the WVS Webinar Series 2026!

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar:

📌 Is reproductive agency associated with subjective well-being? A population-based cross-sectional study among men and women in four sub-Saharan African countries using the WVS

👤 Speaker: Karin Båge (Karolinska Institutet)
📅 May 18, 2026
🕒 15:00 UTC | 17:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

This webinar examines the relationship between reproductive agency and subjective well-being across Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe using World Values Survey data. The findings show that greater reproductive agency is associated with higher life satisfaction and overall life agency—particularly among women—highlighting important implications for gender equality, wellbeing, and global debates on fertility and autonomy.

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Vwkuv6jpRiO7sIzMQ6c4Hg
Full paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2025.2604450

📢 The World Values Survey Association invites you to the 2025 Ronald F. Inglehart Honorary Lecture!

Dr. Elizabeth J. Zechmeister (Vanderbilt University) will present:

"Preserving Public Commitment to Democracy"
How easily is public trust in democracy eroded—and how can it be rebuilt? This lecture explores how cycles of tit-for-tat politics undermine democratic norms, and how meaningful human connection can instead foster trust and compromise. Drawing on global survey and experimental data, Dr. Zechmeister offers new insights into the possibilities for strengthening democratic resilience.

📅 Tuesday, 16 December 2025
🕒 15:00 UTC
📍 Online via Zoom
💬 Free attendance | Recording will be available after

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SCps55XpR1ixWPj7od-h0w

This annual lecture honors the legacy of Prof. Ronald F. Inglehart, founder of the World Values Survey.