Author Topic: Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An "Experimental Ethnography"  (Read 684 times)

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The “@$$H*!&” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “@$$H*!&”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men, who shrugged it off.

http://cognitionandculture.net/wp-content/uploads/InsultAggressionAndTheSouthernCulture.pdf
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Attacking both the Southern and Western culture of honor...