magazine issue 1 2012 / Issue 13

The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

• written by Alba Jasini, Bertjan Doosje, Kai Jonas & Agneta Fischer
• edited by Ashley Waggoner Denton

To conclude, we argue that understanding group-based humiliation and its relation with group honor is important. As we have indicated, the experience of humiliation is highly negative and may lead to a difficult coping process since the value of the self or in-group may be threatened and the relationships with others may deteriorate. By exploring the sources of humiliation, its experience and its implications in different types of social groups and intergroup contexts, research can provide comprehensive knowledge on the conceptualization of this emotion. Moreover, as we have indicated, group-based humiliation is differently experienced in cultures that vary in the centrality of honor values. Therefore, mechanisms developed for understanding and preventing consequences of humiliation should take into consideration the cultural characteristics of the groups.

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