Jin Shuxian, Romano Angelo, Vignoles Vivian L, Kirchner-Häusler Alexander, Rodríguez-Bailón Rosa, Cross Susan E, Yalçın Meral Gezici, Harb Charles, Husnu Shenel, Ishii Keiko, Karamaouna Panagiota, Kafetsios Konstantinos, Kateri Evangelia, Matamoros-Lima Juan, Miniesy Rania, Na Jinkyung, Pagliaro Stefano, Psaltis Charis, Rabie Dina, Teresi Manuel, Uchida Yukiko, Uskul Ayse K
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology Department, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Nat Hum Behav. 2025 Sep 26. doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02308-0.
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.
有效应对社会挑战通常需要互不相关的个体减少冲突并成功协调行动。“荣誉”的文化逻辑常与冲突相关联进行研究，但其在竞争与合作中的作用仍未得到充分探索。当前研究调查了感知到的规范性荣誉价值观和个人认可的荣誉价值观如何预测竞争与合作行为。在一项测试预先注册假设的在线实验中，来自13个社会的3371名参与者在竞赛游戏中做出了有激励的竞争决策，并在阶梯式公共物品游戏中做出了协调合作的决策。在社会和个体层面，感知到的规范性荣誉价值观都与更强的竞争和更强的合作相关联。个人认可与捍卫家庭声誉相关的价值观与更强的协调努力相关，而认可自我提升和报复则与较弱的协调参与相关。这些发现凸显了荣誉作为一种文化逻辑（以其不同形式）在塑造跨社会的竞争与合作中的作用。
