Culture of honor

“Anyone concerned with violence must read this book. So should every southerner, and anyone interested in the connections between psychology and culture. The explanations offered by Nisbett and Cohen will stimulate an important controversy, but the evidence they have generated is incontrovertible: Aspects of southern culture have psychological effects that result in high rates of homicidal violence.” —Alan Page Fiske Bryn Mawr College, Author of Structures of Social Life