PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Psychology, Field Experiment, Homicide

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20 Aug 2018
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Culture of honor: is one in which people (especially men) strive to protect their reputation through aggression. Nisbett and cohen"s explanation about the aggression in the south as compared to the. In sum, herders face a particular kind of threat that farmers do not: their wealth is portable. This threat is exacerbated because herding tends to be practiced on rather marginal land, which can"t support large populations, making it very difficult to police. Herders would seem to live a rather precarious existence indeed. One kind of evidence they gathered was archival data which existed in accumulated documents or records of a culture. If the south"s violence is due to a culture of honor, we shouldn"t expect that all kinds of homicide would be higher in the south than in the north. Rather, specifically argument related murders, in which people are compelled to defend their honor, should be higher.

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