How Honour Shapes the Affective Experience of Relational Boundary Transgressions

As the second stage of a cross-cultural project investigating how honour and reputation moralise emotions and resulting violent tendencies, (and expanding upon its previous qualitative stage,) this study will examine the affective experiences of relational boundary transgressions, and also the relationships among honour, jealousy, attitude toward intimate partner violence, specific moral emotions, and self-esteem in individuals from three different cultures (Britain, Spain, and Greece). Using quantitative methods, we aim to investigate how honour (both on an individual and cultural level) influences people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, in situations where they experience feelings such as jealousy and protectiveness toward interactions that people close to them (e.g.,romantic partner, sibling, parent, etc.) might have with other people. We would also like to examine how honour shapes the relationships between jealousy, attitude towards Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), and self-esteem through the experience of different moral emotions. Results from this study would further inform the next studies which will test the effect of emotional expressivity and violent behaviour on character judgment, and apply our findings to the narratives and psychological characteristics of individuals more directly involved in domestic violence situations.