Honor Bound: The Cultural Construction of Honor in Turkey and the Northern United States

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1131-1151

  Uskul, Ayse K ^a   Cross, Susan E ^b   Sunbay, Zeynep ^c   Gercek Swing, Berna ^b   Ataca, Bilge ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

culture; honor; Northern United States; situation sampling method; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862937561     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111422258     Document Type: Article

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