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Markku Verkasalo

Researcher at University of Helsinki

Publications -  84
Citations -  6014

Markku Verkasalo is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Big Five personality traits. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 84 publications receiving 5115 citations.

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Refining the theory of basic individual values.

TL;DR: A refined theory of basic individual values intended to provide greater heuristic and explanatory power than the original theory of 10 values is proposed and analyses of predictive validity demonstrate that the refined values theory provides greater and more precise insight into the value underpinnings of beliefs.
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The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

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TL;DR: Results indicated there were significant cross-regional differences in the ideal female figure and body dissatisfaction, but effect sizes were small across high-socioeconomic-status (SES) sites.
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Measuring values with the Short Schwartz's Value Survey.

TL;DR: The results show that the new scale had good reliability and validity and that the values measured by the SSVS were arrayed on a circle identical to the theoretical structure of values.
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Value priorities and social desirability: Much substance, some style

TL;DR: In this article, the authors hypothesize that associations of value priorities with socially desirable responding (SD) might be due to a stylistic bias that distorts self-reported value ratings or to a substantive relationship between valued goals and needs.

Refining the theory of basic individual values

TL;DR: This paper proposed a refined theory of basic individual values intended to provide greater heuristic and explanatory power than the original theory of 10 values (Schwartz, 1992), which more accurately expresses the central assumption of the original value theory that research has largely ignored: values form a circular motivational continuum.