Re: Southern vs. Northern violence
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