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Aug 10, 2018 · Honor is an abstract concept that includes personal, individual values (“ethos”) as well as norms of social interaction (“code of behavior”). Honor is a measure of the quality of a person ...
Dec 8, 2016 · Honor highlights the need to invest in the group, the need to behave in ways that others in one’s in-group can rely on, and the need to preserve the group’s relative advantage. If honor is a cultural mindset, then people should have an available, though not necessarily activated, knowledge network of honor-related content, procedures, and ...
Jun 26, 2015 · To the extent that we don’t judge or criticize ourselves, we don’t feel compelled to disrespect or shame others. True dignity allows for generosity toward others. Pride is a commodity that we ...
Summary. Honor is complex, deeply relational, and important in many cultures and social groups. A definition of honor as multifaceted and consisting of a set of interrelated honor codes, i.e., the honor-as-multifaceted approach to honor, is presented and discussed by Rodriguez Mosquera. This definition provides researchers the conceptual ...
Culture of Honor Definition. A culture of honor is a culture in which a person (usually a man) feels obliged to protect his or her reputation by answering insults, affronts, and threats, oftentimes through the use of violence. Cultures of honor have been independently invented many times across the world.
We find evidence that honor cultures' focus on virility impedes a key conflict deescalation strategy—apology—that can be successfully promoted through a shift in mindset. Building on the conceptualization of honor as both virility and virtue, we show that virility concerns of maintaining one's reputation underlie the reluctance to apologize ...
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Third, I argue that current models of the development and maintenance of cultures of honor and violence can be informed by an evolutionary psychological perspective (e.g., Buss, 1995; Goetz and Shackelford, in press; Tooby and Cosmides, 1992). The article closes with a tentative and speculative evolutionary psychological analysis of the ...