Values in Crisis - a Crisis of Values? Moral Values and Social Orientations under the Imprint of the Corona Pandemic

The project seized the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment to investigate whether, how and to what extent people’s moral values change as a result of a disruptive event of massive order and global scale. An online panel survey measured individuals’ experiences with COVID-19, moral values, personality traits and social orientations at three different stages throughout the pandemic: at its onset, one year later amidst the pandemic, and two years later towards its end.