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The study of values has a long history in psychology (e.g., Baldwin, 1898) and has come to the forefront in cross-cultural research over recent decades with the work of Schwartz and colleagues (e.g., Schwartz, 1992; Schwartz et al., 2012). In contrast to Schwartz’s theory-driven approach to values, in a recent paper in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, De Raad and colleagues (2016) used a lexical approach to study the common value structure in three European language groups. They pointed out differences between the theory-driven and lexical approaches. In the following two commentaries, Schwartz first identifies similarities between the two approaches, and De Raad et al. follow with a further discussion of their lexical approach. Deborah L. Best Editor Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology