1. Honor Bound
Part 2

2. Individual projects

3. Examples
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4. Risk-taking
How else do men and women show their honor tendencies? Why would women show this effect?
How do the authors explain the “greater than chance likelihood” of US Presidents descending from Ulster Scots? Are there other alternative explanations?

5. Individualism How do the authors link to collectivism?
Do you have any problems or questions about their approach?
Vandello & Cohen, 1999
“scored each state for the frequency with which the top 10 most popular names in 1960 also made it to the top 10 lists in 1984 and 2008” (p. 105)

6. Regional patterns of collectivism in the United States
Vandello, J. A., & Cohen, D. (1999). Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(2), doi: /
© 1999 American Psychological Association

7. Reliability Statistics for the Eight Collectivism Indicators
Vandello, J. A., & Cohen, D. (1999). Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(2), doi: /
© 1999 American Psychological Association

8. Allegiances beyond family
What groups besides family are important to CoH?
How does Brown link football to honor cultures?
To patriotism? (Barnes et al., 2012)
To political attitudes?
How does it differ from RWA, etc. (Barnes et al., 2014)?
Are there other explanations for Dafoe & Caughey’s (2013) findings related to Southern vs. non Southern Presidents and Cohen’s (1996) related to Congress?

9. “It Was a Thought Pitch”: Personal, Situational, and Target influences on Hit-By-Pitch Events Across Time
Examined pitchers from the South and their likelihood of hitting other players with a pitch.
Controlled for skill (career on base % & slugging %), and league of players (better players tended to get hit more, American league players more likely to pitch and hit other players).
Examined game data from
Hypothesized pitchers from the South are more likely to hit players after their teammate had been hit.
Timmerman, T. A. (2007). “It was a thought pitch”: Personal, situational, and target influences on hit-by-pitch events across time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92:

10. Family ties
How does Brown explain fewer people in CoH states living in nursing homes?

11. NonUS honor cultures
What examples does Brown give of honor attitudes affecting perceptions of gender in children?
How does honor ideology relate to religion?

12. Dying and Killing for One’s Group: Identity Fusion Moderates Responses to Intergroup Versions of the Trolley Problem
Identity fusion in Spaniards
Participants were asked to respond to variations of the “footbridge dilemma” and completed a measure for identity fusion.
Study 1: When personal identities were fused with their group identity they endorsed saving a fellow group member even if it meant giving up their own life
Study 2 & 3: Self-sacrificial behaviors generalized to saving members of extended in- groups (i.e., Europeans) but not members of an out-group (i.e., Americans).
Study 4: Participants endorsed “pushing aside a fellow in-group member who was poised to jump to his death and initiate a chain of events that would lead to the deaths of several terrorists, so that they could commit this act themselves”
Swann Jr, W. B., Gómez, Á., Dovidio, J. F., Hart, S., & Jetten, J. (2010). Dying and killing for one’s group: Identity fusion moderates responses to intergroup versions of the trolley problem. Psychological Science, 21,

13. Results:
The likelihood of being hit by a pitch depends on birthplace of the pitcher.
White pitchers born in the South are more likely than non-Southerners to aggress against available targets in situations in which their honor might be threatened (Homerun scored, teammate hit, etc.)
This tendency is strongest when both players are White
Consistent with the honor culture theory
Timmerman, T. A. (2007). It was a thought pitch: Personal, situational, and target influences on hit-by-pitch events across time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92,

14. Measurement Is it a group-level or individual-level variable?
How should it be measured?
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Scales in Appendix
State- or country-level indices
Implicit measures

15. Summary
What are some positive and negative consequences of honor ideology?
Kelly (1999) found that honor states had more violently named towns and businesses. What other subtle ways are cultural ideals passed on?
How might baseball player’s honor relate to virtuous violence?
Is self sacrificial behavior morally driven or something else? Could it be selfish rather than selfless?

16. Do you see honor ideology as becoming more or less popular in the future?
How can it be changed? Should it be?
What are other areas not discussed in the book that may be affected by CoH?
Is it a Southern White thing? How do different CoH differ?

17. Is it CoH or something else?
How is it similar or different from
Collectivism?
Religion?
Conservatism?
Other possible explanations (Nisbett, & Cohen, 2018)
Temperature
Tradition of slavery
Poverty
CoH (their favorite)

18. Take home message

19. Individual projects

20. Group projects