[lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence

[Carl Remick]

>From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
>
>... 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.

It would be unseemly of me to gloat about those findings.  I will simply 
note them with clinical detachment and file them under ROTFL.

Carl

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