European Review of Social Psychology Volume 26 European Review of Social Psychology ROUTLEDGE Routled Taylor & Francis Edited by Miles Hewatane and Antony Manstead ISSN: 1046-3283 (Print) 1479-277X (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pers20 The social and cultural psychology of honour: What have we learned from researching honour in Turkey? Ayse K. Uskul & Susan E. Cross To cite this article: Ayse K. Uskul & Susan E. Cross (2019) The social and cultural psychology of honour: What have we learned from researching honour in Turkey?, European Review of Social Psychology, 30:1, 39-73, DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2018.1542903 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2018.1542903 Published online: 15 Nov 2018. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 44 View Crossmark data C Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=pers20
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2018, VOL. 30, NO. 1, 39-73 https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2018.1542903 ROUTLEDGE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group ARTICLE Check for updates The social and cultural psychology of honour: What have we learned from researching honour in Turkey? Ayse K. UskulÂŞ and Susan E. Cross b aSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; bDepartment of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA ABSTRACT A growing literature in social and cultural psychology has examined cultures of honour primarily focusing on southern states in the United States and on Mediterranean countries of southern Europe. In this article, we review a programme of research that has extended theories of cultures of honour to an under-researched context: Turkey. We first describe research that assessed lay reports of the situations that enhance or attack a person's honour and lay prototypes of honour. Next, we review research that built on this foundation and examined emotional implications, actual retaliatory responses, and preferences for different types of actions (e.g., attack vs. withdrawal) in the face of honour threats. We then briefly comment on our current research focused on the ways that honour threats can impede goal pursuit, on the distinction between different types of honour threats, and on acculturation processes in immigrant groups from cultures of honour. We conclude by highlighting the contributions of this programme of research to the literature on cultures of honour and discuss future directions. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 25 April 2018; Accepted 29 October 2018 KEYWORDS Culture of honour; retaliation; threat; emotion; prototypes Introduction Comparative evidence accumulated over the last three decades has demon- strated considerable cross-cultural variation in psychological processes, show- ing that many of the phenomena that we used to think of as "basic" social psychology turn out to be culture-bound (for reviews see Cohen & Kitayama, 2018; Kitayama & Uskul, 2011). An overwhelming majority of this evidence has originated from comparisons conducted between western (e.g., North America and Western Europe) and east Asian (e.g., Japan, Korea) cultural contexts (De Almeida & Uchida, 2018). One consequence of this has been that findings from studies conducted in North America/Western Europe versus CONTACT Ayse K. Uskul a.k.uskul@kent.ac.uk= School of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP, United Kingdom 2018 European