Maksim Rudnev

Research Associate
Maksim Rudnev

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Research Interests

I am a quantitative social scientist interested in human values and social perception, their cultural variability, and data science informed by psychometrics. I have an MA in Psychology, a PhD in Sociology, and substantial training in statistics and psychometrics. I have lived and worked in three countries and have taught methods at various levels. I am looking into the determinants of values and worldviews across individuals in various countries and cultures. I believe this mystery can be unravelled through various scientific methods, which I take very seriously. This belief shapes my dual-focused research interest: understanding the substance of cultural (in)variability and the methods intrinsically linked to cross-cultural inference.

Representative Publications

  • Rudnev, M., Barrett, H. C., Buckwalter, W., Machery, E., Stich, S., Barr, K., ... & Grossmann, I. (2024). Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6375. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50294-0
  • Fischer, R., & Rudnev, M. (2024). From MIsgivings to MIse-en-scène: the role of invariance in personality science. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241283081
  • Rudnev M. & Vauclair C.-M. (2022). Revisiting Cowgill’s Modernisation Theory: Perceived Social Status of Older Adults Across 58 Countries. Ageing & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org//10.1017/S0144686X22001192 
  • Remizova A., Rudnev M., & Davidov E. (2022). In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey. Sociological Methods and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241221077239
  • Rudnev M. (2021). Caveats of Non-Ipsatization of Basic Values: A review of issues and a simulation study. Journal of Research in Personality, 93, 104118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104118 
  • Rudnev M. (2021). Political Participation and Basic Values in Europe: Replication and Extension of Vecchione et al. (2015). British Journal of Psychology, 112(4).  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12496 
  • Rudnev M., Magun V., & Schwartz S. H. (2018). Relations Among Higher Order Values Around the World. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(8), 1165-1182.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022118782644