Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies.

IF 15.9 1区心理学 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

Nature Human Behaviour Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI:10.1038/s41562-025-02308-0

Shuxian Jin,Angelo Romano,Vivian L Vignoles,Alexander Kirchner-Häusler,Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón,Susan E Cross,Meral Gezici Yalçın,Charles Harb,Shenel Husnu,Keiko Ishii,Panagiota Karamaouna,Konstantinos Kafetsios,Evangelia Kateri,Juan Matamoros-Lima,Rania Miniesy,Jinkyung Na,Stefano Pagliaro,Charis Psaltis,Dina Rabie,Manuel Teresi,Yukiko Uchida,Ayse K Uskul

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Abstract

Effectively addressing societal challenges often requires unrelated individuals to reduce conflict and successfully coordinate actions. The cultural logic of 'honour' is frequently studied in relation to conflict, but its role in competition and cooperation remains underexplored. The current study investigates how perceived normative and personally endorsed honour values predict competition and cooperation behaviours. In an online experiment testing preregistered hypotheses, 3,371 participants from 13 societies made incentivized competition decisions in a contest game and cooperation decisions for coordination in a step-level public goods game. Perceived normative honour values were associated with greater competition and greater cooperation at both societal and individual levels. Personally endorsing values tied to defence of family reputation was associated with greater coordinative efforts, whereas endorsing self-promotion and retaliation was associated with weaker engagement in coordination. These findings highlight the role of honour as a cultural logic (in its different forms) in shaping competition and cooperation across societies.

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13个社会的荣誉、竞争与合作。

有效地应对社会挑战往往需要不相关的个人减少冲突并成功地协调行动。“荣誉”的文化逻辑经常被研究与冲突有关，但其在竞争与合作中的作用仍未得到充分探讨。目前的研究调查了认知规范和个人认可的荣誉价值观如何预测竞争和合作行为。在一项测试预注册假设的在线实验中，来自13个社会的3371名参与者在竞赛博弈中做出了激励竞争决策，在阶梯公共物品博弈中做出了协调合作决策。在社会和个人层面上，人们感知到的规范性荣誉价值观与更大的竞争和更大的合作有关。个人支持与捍卫家庭声誉相关的价值观与更大的协调努力有关，而支持自我推销和报复与更弱的协调参与有关。这些发现强调了荣誉作为一种文化逻辑（以不同的形式）在塑造社会竞争与合作中的作用。

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Nature Human Behaviour Psychology-Social Psychology

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36.80

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227

期刊介绍： Nature Human Behaviour is a journal that focuses on publishing research of outstanding significance into any aspect of human behavior.The research can cover various areas such as psychological, biological, and social bases of human behavior.It also includes the study of origins, development, and disorders related to human behavior.The primary aim of the journal is to increase the visibility of research in the field and enhance its societal reach and impact.