The cross and the sword: A multidimensional investigation of the links between gendered facets of honor and Religiosity among American Christians

Code of honor: Honor ideology as a predictor of liking for popular films.

“…Participants completed an eight-item measure of religiosity, due to the religious nature of some of the films, such as The Passion of the Christ , as well as the religious controversy surrounding films, such as the Harry Potter series (Worthington et al, 2003). We also believed it important to control for religiosity given the complex interplay between honor and religion (Pomerantz & Brown, 2020). This measure of religious commitment and involvement includes items such as “Religious beliefs influence all of my dealings in life” and “I enjoy spending time with others of my religious affiliation,” to which respondents indicate their level of agreement using a 5-point scale (1 = strongly disagree , 5 = strongly agree ).…”

Do psychologists understand honor cultures when they operationalize them?

“…More recently, a book‐length treatment on U.S. honor culture has appeared (Brown, ), and a special symposium addressing other manifestations of the construct was organized at an annual meeting of the International Association of Cross‐Cultural Psychology . Efforts to properly conceptualize and measure honor in its various forms are ongoing (e.g., Leung & Cohen, ; Pomerantz & Brown, ; Saucier et al, ; Yao, Ramirez‐Marin, Brett, Aslani, & Semnani‐Azad, ), and with respect to these activities, the present paper attempts to make a contribution in an unusual way: by interrupting them with the simple but vital question, “What does it mean to understand honor cultures?” Or, said differently, “Is operationalizing honor cultures equivalent to understanding them?” The present paper addresses the question in three ways: 1) by elucidating the concept of understanding in light of Michael Polanyi's thought, 2) bringing a heuristic tool inspired by this effort to bear on the operationalization of southern U.S. honor beliefs in the Honor Ideology for Manhood scale (HIM; Barnes, Brown, & Osterman, ), and 3) considering how the most vital dimensions of cultural life are transmitted through extended personal contacts (e.g., apprenticeships) where explicit statements of cultural beliefs are richly conditioned by individuals' tacit knowledge of their social existence.…”