The traditional Southern belief that
men must defend their honor is alive and well but not just among men.
A new study finds that both men and women in the Southern United
States believe in responding aggressively – and sometimes in the
extreme – to attacks on the nation.
In two studies, researchers sought to
measure both individual and regional differences in honor ideology in
the United States. "Honor ideology encompasses beliefs about how
men are supposed to behave in the face of provocations and the
attributes that 'real' men should exhibit,” says Collin Barnes of
the University of Oklahoma, lead author of the research online this
month in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Read the full press release.
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The traditional Southern belief that
men must defend their honor is alive and well but not just among men.
A new study finds that both men and women in the Southern United
States believe in responding aggressively – and sometimes in the
extreme – to attacks on the nation.