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.
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
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