FYP Research Projecs

Adrianna, you were missing today, but not to worry. We discussed some ideas about a potential project on masculine honour, which each of you can tackle from different angles. The overarching idea that we came up with is to show that the social context (particularly, high violence and conflicts) is important in increasing value/preference for more traditional honour-related qualities in men (toughness, bravery, ability to defend himself, and protect others close to him). 

So far we thought of looking at 1) whether women rate honour-related traits and behaviors as more important in men as sexual/romantic mates, 2) whether women (and men) prefer to raise their sons with more honour-related traits and qualities when there is more violence and potential for threats from outsiders versus when there is not (in a peaceful context). We can run projects along these ideas.

As promised, I am sending you the primary readings on masculine and culture of honour threat. These can help you familiarize with the topic and the background of our project. 

In the book pdf that I attached by Vandello & Cohen (2004) chapter 12, search for the chapter titled When Believing Is Seeing: Sustaining Norms of Violence in Cultures of Honor.

Also question marks before the article names do not mean anything.

We will meet all of us again in September, and hopefully set up the studies on Qualtrics for data collection ideally in October. 

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Need to measure perceived salience (high vs. low) threat after threat of violence manipulation.

Check Immo.Frietsche@uni-leipzig.de

Authrotarian responses to threat do not genuinely reflect political conservativism: why and when the paris bombings motivated protests for liberalism and intergroup tolerance

SHORT STUDY IDEA - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND MASC. & FEM. HONOUR IN TURKEY AND ENGLAND

Dear Ayse,

I found a new honour scale here, and I attached it here for you as you may want to keep it too.

Some study ideas came to my mind after being inspired of short one study papers. For instance, the paper by Sheida Novin and colleagues talk about self-esteem and honour, but they haven't measured masculine and feminine honour which they are point out in their future research suggestions. We have data on this already from the Mass Test data, and I did some correlational analysis on this with White-British participants, which had quite interesting results.

*** Results with White-UK/Irish participants (We measured integrity, family, feminine and masculine honour concerns with Patricia's scale:

- Interestingly, masculine honour and self-esteem correlated negatively for males, but positive for females. 

- No other Honour measure correlated with self-esteem for males. For females, integrity honour and family honour were also positive correlated.

I ran the correlations also with non-White British/Irish and non-White European, and other non-White participants, this data had mainly Indian, Pakistani, Bengladeshi, Asian and Black participants, and even though the number of males were so low (N = 9), masculine, family and integrity honour correlated very strongly with self-esteem scale for males, and feminine honour correlated significantly for females. 

I thought we could collect data from Turkey too, and maybe we could publish a short paper out of this. I think the negative significant correlation with self-esteem and masculine honour for white-British participants is interesting.

I had one more idea, to look at different appraisals of shame in a low-honour and a high-honour culture. That idea came from Gausel and Leach's study published on GPIR special issue on Social Image.

Maybe these ideas can stay in the drawer for now, but I thought how easy and quick it would be to publish one-study papers. Neat and focused with short Intro's and Discussions :)

See you tomorrow at our lab meeting.

Best,

Pelin

SHORT STUDY IDEA - APPRAISALS OF SHAME IN AN HONOUR VS. DIGNITY CULTURE

inspiration source: Gausel, N., & Leach, C. W. (2011). Concern for self‐image and social image in the management of moral failure: Rethinking shame. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(4), 468-478.

Dear Ayse,

I think I got inspired by one study short paper because of their efficiency in little time and effort, and I think now I'm primed with thinking about a basic study that can advance theory.

Idea for a cross-cultural study in a honour vs. dignity culture, looking at how moral failures are related to perceptions' of others' condemnation (social image concern) or one's self-defect (self-image concern), and how much shame and rejection this would cause. In this case audience (public vs. private) can also be manipulated and it may work (I got the idea after Gausel & Leach's paper published in the GPIR special issue - They showed appraising shame through self-defect evokes feelings of shame, while appraising shame through other's condemnation evokes feelings of rejection).

Prediction: 
Testing the mechanism from moral failure to experiences of shame. In an honor culture, people may tend to appraise their shame experiences based on other's condemnation (more than self-condemnation).
One would expect that in Turkey (honor culture, with its cultural sensitivity to social image concerns), people would tend to appraise their shame based on other's condemnation (social image concern) after a moral failure more than people in England (dignity), and both groups of people would feel more shame about their moral failure. So the results/strength of the path from moral failure to shame may differ in both cultures, and this could be moderated by Public/Private moral failure.

Moral failure can be lying or not being honest to a friend, or hurting them (since care and fairness are universal moral failures).

Culture and Public/Private would be moderators, of the mediation model:

IV = moral failure 

2 Mediators = other's condemnation & self-condemnation

DV = feeling shame or feeling rejected