A different kind of honor culture: Family honor and aggression in Turks

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 334-344

  van Osch, Yvette ^a   Breugelmans, Seger M ^a   Zeelenberg, Marcel ^a   Bölük, Pinar ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aggression; biculturals; family honor; honor; insults; masculine honor; Turkish culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877349271     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212467475     Document Type: Article

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