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Social and Cultural Underpinnings of Honor Code
According to Pitt-Rivers (2001), honor, simultaneously, is a person’s self-reflection and representation of their moral values in the social setting. Consequently, honor is a cohesive measure for determining social identity, which exists in one’s interpersonal relationships established in the society. They further added that honor code applicable in a culture regulates individuals by guiding their moral evaluation and judgment of others, influencing people’s actions before society, and measuring of social status (Pitt-Rivers 2003). Blincoe and Harris (2011) suggested that we use other people’s perception of our social image to...
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Themistocleous, D., Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2018). Honor Code. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1078-1
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