Alice Ramos

• PhD
• Research Associate at University of Lisbon

We test the theory that personality incoherence may instigate personality change in the context of personal values. Values’ near-universal organization makes value incoherence assessment straightforward. The study included 13 longitudinal samples from seven cultures (Australia, Israel Palestinian citizens, Israel Jewish majority, Italy, Poland, Por...

The results of the European Values Study (EVS: www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu) reflect the values, attitudes and opinions of citizens with regard to a variety of topics central to day-today life, such as family, religion, politics, and work. However, issues involving perceived well-being and happiness, morality, human migration, the role of the welfare...

Values are a central dimension of human social life. As conceptualized in Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Human Values, they are core to a person’s self-concept and drive individual actions towards both personal development and social transformation. Cross-cultural research with adults reveals a consensus regarding values’ structure and priorities. Rese...

Values are a central dimension of human social life, they are core to a person's self-concept and identity and drive individual actions towards both personal enhancement and social transformation. At a social level, values govern how individuals relate to others and shape the organization of societies being, therefore, powerful guidelines to face n...

Immigration has been one of the most crucial global phenomena, changing the fabric of many societies, and a topic of substantial research. Much of this research has focused on how the host society views immigrants and immigration, or on the societal factors influencing the latter. The goal of this thematic issue is to present different studies focu...

Based on ESS-7 data, this paper focuses on two attitudinal dimensions about public policies related to immigration: how many can come and who can come. In this context, the hypothesis concerning the bi-dimensionality of racism was supported and, as predicted, biological racism is more anti-normative than cultural racism. Both biological and cultura...

O atual contexto de crise financeira e económica, que conheceu o seu início em 2007, veio estimular a elaboração de documentos estratégicos e prospetivos por parte de múltiplas entidades internacionais e nacionais. Não obstante a sua diversidade, todos eles salientam a necessidade de uma transição para novos modelos de desenvolvimento socioeconómic...

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This proposal is for a repeat of the module on immigration attitudes fielded in the first round of the ESS in 2002/3, which has been extensively used in cross-national research and has made a major contribution to policy debates. A decade on, major political, cultural, economic and demographic developments make this a highly opportune time for a re...

We propose a refined theory of basic individual values intended to provide greater heuristic and explanatory power than the original theory of 10 values (Schwartz, 1992). The refined theory more accurately expresses the central assumption of the original theory that research has largely ignored: Values form a circular motivational continuum. The th...

We propose a refined theory of basic individual values intended to provide greater heuristic and explanatory power than the original theory of 10 values (Schwartz, 1992). The refined theory more accurately expresses the central assumption of the original theory that research has largely ignored: Values form a circular motivational continuum. The th...

This study analyses the predictors of opposition towards immigrants of “different ethnic groups” and “poor countries” in 5 European countries (Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, France and United Kingdom), using data from the European Social Survey 1 (Jowell & the Central Coordinating Team, 2003). Besides Portugal, a country that has moved from being...

Based on data from nineteen countries participating in the European Social Survey 2002, the Schwartz model of social values is analysed in three perspectives: structure, importance and consensus. Results show the equivalence of Schwartz's values structure in the countries analysed. A multi-level analysis was performed in order to test the impact of...

This paper analyzes the opposition to immigration, comparing the European Union as a whole and Portugal, United Kingdom, France and Germany. The first hypvothesis that was examined posits that the perception of economic, security and cultural threats are significant predictors of the orientation towards immigration. The second hypothesis states tha...

Introdução O objectivo deste trabalho consiste em contribuir metodologicamente para a discussão do significado das diferenças entre representações geralmente observadas. Para atingir este objectivo estudam-se as representações sobre os valores do trabalho em cinco países europeus, procurando identificar a forma como os indivíduos estruturam aqueles...