Lithuania Between Past and Present: What Ten Years of Data Tell Us about Changing Values

What do Lithuanians value today compared to a decade ago? And why have those values shifted? These are the questions at the heart of a study I recently published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, co-authored with colleagues at Kaunas University of Technology. Drawing on six waves of the European Social Survey covering 11,199 Lithuanian respondents between 2010 and 2020, we tracked how personal values … Continue reading Lithuania Between Past and Present: What Ten Years of Data Tell Us about Changing Values

Diaspora & Cultural Identity

I surveyed over 1,100 Lithuanian migrants worldwide expecting to find cultures drifting apart across generations. What we found was more surprising. The story we usually tell about diaspora goes something like this: a people displaced from their homeland carry its culture with them, transmit it to their children, and over generations it slowly fades as they assimilate into their host countries. The Lithuanian diaspora, consisting … Continue reading Diaspora & Cultural Identity