EEB 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reverse Engineering, Coevolution, Cortisol
11 Apr 2017
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Culture of honor: authored by nisbett & cohen, written to explain important cultural differences between the south and north that contribute to homicide rates, hypothesis: Culture of honor in hilly areas specializing in herding livestock. Livestock is easy to steal; state penetration is low: lawlessness. Therefore citizens required a tough reputation to deter potential thieves. Rustlers also need to cultivate a reputation for ready violence; the result is a reputational arms race: complications: david fischer. Literate puritan yeomen and artisans from urbanized east. Royalist cavaliers headed and indentured servants from the south and west of england to virginia. Egalitarian quakers of modest social standing from the. Poor borderland families of english, scots, and irish to the. Southern subjects had large spike in cortisol after insult while northern subjects did not. Testosterone also increased in male southern subjects highly, very little in northern subjects.
