On Jul 19, 2010, at 12:49 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Yes, social psychologists have been studying this for about 15 years now. Dov Cohen's done a lot of work on this. Here's a link to a 1996 JPSP article:
>
> http://chiron.valdosta.edu/mawhatley/7670/activity/honor.htm
>From the Grosjean paper:
> One of the main contributions of this paper is to integrate economic and cultural evolutionary
> theories of crime. The main message is that the economic factors underlying criminal behavior
> are not necessarily contemporaneous but historical. Moreover, the institutional environment
> strongly influences the transmission of cultural norms regarding the use of violence. This paper
> also provides a first direct empirical test of the Cohen and Nisbett hypothesis by relying on
> historical census data on Scots-Irish settlements.10 [Note 10: Cohen and Nisbett (1994, 1996) provide an array of experimental evidence showing the higher propensity of Southerners not towards violence in general, but specifically towards violence in order to protect one’s or one’s family reputation.]