01:185:253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Peruvian Amazon, Ultimatum Game, Fair Division
19 Apr 2018
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Legal scholarship indicating that southern states give citizens more freedom to use violence in defending themselves, their homes and their property ex. Stand your ground law in southern states, not northern. Ii. particularly compelling were a field study of moral responses to culture of honor violence and a series of laboratory experiments: in the field study, fake letters were sent to hundreds of employers in the north & South claiming to want a job/ be moving to their part of the country: the letters purported to be from a 27 year old michigan man who had one blemish on his otherwise solid record. Another letter- stole expensive cars when needed money to. Southern employers were more likely to be sympathetic to the support family manslaughter incident. Subject an asshole : 2nd saliva sample was collected and tested for cortisol and testosterone, culture of honor- testosterone and cortisol spike, not in northerners.
