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The symposium includes five studies which investigate individual differences in human values and political individual/group behavior. The first examines whether human values explain attitudes toward the European Union and the British vote to exit the EU using recent British survey data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The second study uses field studies to explore if existential threats explain changes in prosocial values as a function of political orientation. The third investigates the country-level and uses data from multiple countries and time points from the ESS to assess their adequacy to measure cultural values. Finally, the fourth study examines a new clustering approach and applies it on measures on the importance of values attributed by respondents.