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Irina Vartanova
In my research, I use survey data, such as World Values Survey, to study social norms and their change in different cultures. At the Institute, I work with Pontus Strimling and Kimmo Eriksson on a project
Ethnic variations in mental health among 10–15-year-olds living in England and Wales: The impact of neighbourhood characteristics and parental behaviour
Health & Place 51 (2018) pp.189–199, doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.03.010. Abstract Several studies indicate that young people from certain ethnic minority groups in Britain have significant men
Disillusionment and Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Pro-American to Anti-American Attitudes, 1993–2009.
International Studies Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 3, p.534–547, doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy013 Abstract In the early 1990s, the Russian public held overwhelmingly favorable attitudes toward the United States
Does education indoctrinate?
International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using
Insecurity and political values in the Arab world
Democratization, vol 27, issue 5, p. 699-716 Abstract Within a few years of the historic Arab uprisings of 2011, popular mobilization dissipated amidst instability in many Arab countries. We trace the r
The Relation Between Gender Egalitarian Values and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Frontiers in Psychology, 11:236 Abstract Gender differences in achievement exhibit variation between domains and between countries. Much prior research has examined whether this variation could be due t
Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries
Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges
The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden
Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of
The Liberal Social Values of Swedish Healthcare Providers in Women’s Healthcare: Implications for Clinical Encounters in a Diversified Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
International Journal of Public Health Abstract Objectives:Women’s healthcare is a potential source of cross-cultural conflicts. Diverging values between healthcare providers and patients challenges the
Cultural Universals and Cultural Differences in Meta-Norms about Peer Punishment
Management and Organization Review, Volume 13, Issue 4 (Special Issue Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of Kwok Leung (1958–2015)) Abstract Violators of cooperation norms may be informally punis
