Psychology
Laboratory research demonstrated that men in honor cultures perceive interpersonal threats more readily than do men in other cultures, including increases in cortisol and testosterone levels following insults. In culture-of-honor states, high school students were found to be more likely to bring a weapon to school in the past month and over a 20-year period, there were more than twice as many school shootings per capita. According to Lindsey Osterman and Ryan Brown in "Culture of Honor and Violence Against the Self," "ndividuals (particularly Whites) living in honor states are at an especially high risk for committing suicide."
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