Human  values constitute a central construct in social and personality psychology,  serving as cognitive representations that guide behavior and express  fundamental human needs. Over the past decades, the Functional Theory of  Human Values (FTHV), developed by Gouveia, has gained significant  international recognition as a parsimonious and theory-driven framework. In  his seminal book The Psychology of Human Values, Gregory Maio highlights the  FTHV as a major contemporary approach that bridges motivational and  functional perspectives on values. Furthermore, in their comprehensive  empirical evaluation, Paul Hanel and colleagues systematically compare the  FTHV with other established value frameworks, demonstrating its structural  robustness and predictive power. Similarly, Lilach Sagiv and Shalom Schwartz  explicitly recognize Gouveia’s model as one of the three primary  psychological theories of human values operating at the individual level of  analysis, alongside Schwartz’s and Rokeach’s classic models. This work  synthesizes the theoretical foundations, structural organization, and  empirical applications of the FTHV, examining how basic values systematically  relate to individual differences, including bright and dark personality  traits. Finally, it outlines ongoing cross-cultural and behavioral research  investigating the associations between basic human values and complex  psychosocial phenomena, such as informal social practices (the Brazilian  way), belief in a just world across more than 50 nations, and romantic-sexual  behavioral patterns (donjuanism).

Valdiney Veloso Gouveia，现任巴西帕拉伊巴联邦大学教授。先后取得心理学、法学学士学位，社会与工作心理学硕士以及社会心理学博士学位，并完成心理测量学专业进修。

曾赴新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学担任访问教授、加拿大维多利亚大学任高级研究员，历任帕拉伊巴联邦大学校长、心理学系主任、社会心理学硕博项目协调人。兼任巴西CNPq、CAPES 等多家科研基金会及福特基金会顾问，同时担任多本国际知名心理学期刊编委与审稿专家。主要研究方向为社会心理学、心理评估，聚焦人类价值观、人格特质、主观幸福感、亲社会与反社会行为等议题。