On May 6, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> The general pattern is consistent with Nisbett and Cohen's culture of
> honor hypothesis. --Interesting aside, I know Carl will love this: in
> one study, N & C exposed college students to an abusive insult (a
> person
> bumped the student in a hallway and called him "asshole").
> Immediately
> afterwards, students who grew up in the South were more
> physiologically
> aroused, had higher cortisol and testosterone levels, and felt more
> hostile than students who grew up outside the South. In sum: The
> culture of honor in the South encompasses not just people's attitudes
> but also their physiological reactions when their personal honor is
> impugned.
Is that culture of honor thing more common in previously colonized regions than non-colonized?
Doug