A leader in the Educational Psychology community Dr. Jeffery Whippo feels that values play a very critical role in a person’s overall psychological makeup and are learned through the socialization process. He insists that over time, values become internalized by the individual and become an integral component of the self. He explains that values are simply an individual's principles, standards of behavior, or one's judgment of what’s important in life. In his opinion, values held by individuals affect many decisions, commitments and working relationships within organizations.
