Early Life and Educational Background
Shalom H. Schwartz was born in Hempstead, N.Y., on New Year’s Day in 1936, 2 h too late for his parents to benefit from a tax deduction. He attended public school for 6 years, where he was called by various versions of his middle name, Hillel. Finally, when he transferred to a yeshiva in Jamaica, Queens, for 2 years, he reassumed his first name. He then attended and graduated from Hempstead High School. At the same time, he commuted twice a week to Manhattan to continue his Hebraic and Jewish studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). As an undergraduate at Columbia College, he specialized in comparative literature. He found the introductory course in psychology (100% behaviorist, training a rat) so unstimulating that he refrained from taking another psychology course until graduate school. While earning his AB at Columbia, he completed a BA in Hebrew Literature and Language at JTS. In his senior year, he spent a semester in Jerusalem, the...
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Schwartz, S. H. (1970). Elicitation of moral obligation and self- sacrificing behavior: An experimental study of volunteering to be a bone marrow donor. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 15, 283–293. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029614.
Schwartz, S. H., & Gottlieb, A. (1976). Bystander reactions to a violent theft: Crime in Jerusalem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 1188–1199. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.34.6.1188.
Schwartz, S. H. (1977). Normative influences on altruism. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 10, pp. 221–279). New York: Academic. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60358-5.
Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theory and empirical tests in 20 countries. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 25, pp. 1–65). New York: Academic. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60281-6.
Schwartz, S. H., & Huismans, S. (1995). Value priorities and religiosity in four Western religions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 58, 88–107. https://doi.org/10.2307/2787148.
Schwartz, S. H., & Bardi, A. (2001). Value hierarchies across cultures: Taking a similarities perspective. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 268–290. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022101032003002.
Bardi, A., & Schwartz, S. H. (2003). Values and behavior: Strength and structure of relations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1207–1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167203254602.
Schwartz, S. H., & Rubel, T. (2005). Sex differences in value priorities: Cross-cultural and multimethod studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 1010–1028. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.89.6.1010.
Knafo, A., & Schwartz, S. H. (2008). Accounting for parent-child value congruence: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence. In U. Schönpflug (Ed.), Perspectives on cultural transmission (pp. 240–268). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Schwartz, S.H., Cieciuch, J., Vecchione, M., Davidov, E., … Konty, M. (2012). Refining the theory of basic individual values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 663–688. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029393.
Schwartz, S. H. (2014). National culture as value orientations: Consequences of value differences and cultural distance. In V. Ginsburgh & D. Throsby (Eds.), Handbook of the economics of art and culture (Vol. 2, pp. 547–586). Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland.
Schwartz, S. H., Caprara, G. V., Vecchione, M., Bain, P., … Zaleski, Z. (2014). Basic personal values underlie and give coherence to political values: A cross national study in 15 countries. Political Behavior, 36, 899–930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-013-9255-z.
Schwartz, S. H. (2015). Basic individual values: Sources and consequences. In D. Sander & T. Brosch (Eds.), Handbook of value (pp. 63–84). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Schwartz, S. H. (2017). The refined theory of basic values. In S. Roccas & L. Sagiv (Eds.), Values and behavior: Taking a cross-cultural perspective (pp. 51–72). Cham: Springer.
Schwartz, S. H., & Sortheix, F. M. (2018). Values and subjective well-being. In E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), Handbook of well-being (Noba Scholar Handbook series: Subjective well-being). Salt Lake City: DEF publishers. https://nobascholar.com.
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Schwartz, S.H. (2019). Schwartz, Shalom. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2327-1
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