Fig. 5: Explaining value similarity across countries.
A Wave 7 country values projected on a two-dimensional space derived from a PCA of all 40 values. Proximity in this space indicates value similarity, and label color indicates continent. B A reproduction of (A) with countries as nodes colored by continent (left) and GDP per capita (right). C The association between pairwise differences in five geopolitical variables and value distance across nations, which involved n = 11 countries at Time 1, n = 20 countries at Time 2, n = 48 countries at Time 3, n = 37 countries at Time 4, n = 52 countries at Time 5, n = 54 countries at Time 6, and n = 52 countries at Time 7. Each node represents a regression coefficient, and these coefficients have been standardized so that they could be interpreted as effect sizes. Error bars are 95% confidence intervals centered around the regression coefficients.
