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Culture of honor reveals a violent streak

Data on homicides, hobbies, and political choices associates stable families and communities with violence in the South and the West, where a culture of honor persists.

 

References:

Cohen, D. 1998. Culture, social organization, and patterns of violence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75(August):408.

 

Sources:

Dov Cohen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Department of Psychology
603 East Daniel Street
Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820

Richard E. Nisbett
University of Michigan
5261 ISR
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 11, September 12, 1998, p. 165.
Copyright © 1998 by Science Service.

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