Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An "Experimental Ethnography"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 945-960

  Cohen, Dov ^a   Bowdle, Brian F ^b   Nisbett, Richard E ^c   Schwarz, Norbert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AFFECT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; SALIVA; UNITED STATES;

AFFECT; AGGRESSION; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030139410     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.5.945     Document Type: Article

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