title: Emotional responses to honour situations in Turkey and the northern USA.
abstract: The main goal of the current research is to investigate emotional reactions to situations that implicate honour in Turkish and northern American cultural groups. In Studies 1A and 1B, participants rated the degree to which a variety of events fit their prototypes for honour-related situations. Both Turkish and American participants evaluated situations generated by their co-nationals as most central to their prototypes of honour-related situations. Study 2 examined emotional responses to Turkish or US-generated situations that varied in centrality to the prototype. Highly central situations and Turkish-generated situations elicited stronger emotions than less central situations and US-generated situations. Americans reported higher levels of positive emotions in response to honour-enhancing situations than did Turkish participants. These findings demonstrate that the prototypes of honour relevant situations differ for Turkish and northern American people, and that Turkish honour relevant situations are more emotion-laden than are northern American honour relevant situations.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Essex , Essex , UK.
authors.forename: Ayse K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Uskul
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.forename: Cansu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alözkan
authors.forename: Berna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gerçek-Swing
authors.forename: Bilge
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ataca
authors.forename: Ceren
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Günsoy
authors.forename: Zeynep
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sunbay
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D008297:Male; D012945:Social Values; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotions; Honour; Northern USA; Situations; Turkey