With HONORLOGIC, we aim to generate transformative evidence for theories of social interaction and decision-making in psychology, economics, and evolutionary science.
Current research outputs are listed below by category.
In the meantime, a repository of material related to the study of honour is being developed in our Resources & Materials pages.
Publications
2025
Husnu, S., Psaltis, C., Kirchner-Häusler, A., & Uskul, A. K. (2025). Retributive justice beliefs in Cyprus: The role of apology effectiveness and honor value endorsement. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 8, 100224.
Open Access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100224
Jin, S., Romano, A., Vignoles, V. L., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Cross, S. E., Yalçın, M.J., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamaros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., … Uskul, A. K. (2025).
Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies. Nature Human Behaviour. Open Access https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02308-0
Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., Wohl, M. J. A., Vignoles, V. L., Cross, S. E., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Gezici-Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2025). The role of apology beliefs for apology tendencies across cultures with varying honor norms. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 9, 100230.Open Access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100230
Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., Wohl, M. J. A., Orazani, N., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Cross, S., Gezici-Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., Uchida, Y & Vignoles, V. L. (2025). Assessing the role of honour culture and image concerns in impeding apologies. European Journal of Social Psychology, 55(5), 893-911. Open Access https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70002
Oishi, S., & Uskul, A. K. (2025). A cross-cultural method in social and personality psychology: The cultural imagination. In H. Reis, T. West, & C. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology, (pp. 85-112). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170123.006
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., O’Dea, C., Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Vignoles, V., Chobthamkit, P., Achmad, R. A., Andrianto, S., Kristanto, A. A., Ardi, R., Lesmana, C. B. J., Castillo, V. A., Chaleeraktrakoon, T., Zhi, A. C. H., Choompunuch, B., Cross, S. E., Nguyen, S. D., Fernandez, E. F., Purba, F. D., … Uchida, Y. (2025). Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(1), e12854. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12854
Uskul, A. K., Hanel, P., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Jin, S., Vignoles, V. L., Rodríguez-Bailón, R.,, Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Gezici Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Jin, S., Karamouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamaros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Özkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2025). Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 129(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000434
Vignoles, V. L., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., Cross, S. E., Na, J., Uchida, Y., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Bossom, I. R. L., Castillo, V. A., Gezici Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na., J., Özkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., Uchida, Y., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2025). (accepted). Are Mediterranean societies ‘cultures of honor’? Prevalence and implications of a cultural logic of honor across three world regions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Open Access https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241295500
2024
Ledgerwood, A., Lawson, K. M., Kraus, M. W., Vollhardt, J. R., Remedios, J. D., Westberg, D. W., Uskul, A. K., Adetula, A., Leach, C. W., Martinez, J. E., Naumann, L. P., Reddy, G., Tate, C. C., Todd, A. R., Weltzien, K., Buchanan, N. C., González, R., Montilla Doble, L. J., Romero-Canyas, R., Westgate, E., Zou, L. X. (2024). Disrupting racism and global exclusion in academic publishing: Recommendations and resources for authors, reviewers, and editors. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 121394.
Open Access https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.121394
Kirchner-Häusler, A., Schönbrodt, F. D., Uskul, A.K., Vignoles, V. L., Rodriguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S.E., Gezici-Yalçın, M., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R, Na, J., Özkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2024). Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well-being in the Mediterranean region. Journal of Personality, 92(1), 38–54.Open Access https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12803
Uskul, A. K., Thalmayer, A. G., Bernardo, A. B. I., González, R., Kende, A., Laher, S., Lášticová, B., Saab, R., Salas, G., Singh, P., Zeinoun, P., Norenzayan, A., Chao, M. M., Shoda, Y., & Cooper, M. L. (2024). Challenges and opportunities for psychological research in the majority world. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 123703.Open Access https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.123703
2023
Kirchner-Häusler, A., De Leersnyder, J., Uskul, A. K., Mirzada, F., Vignoles, V. L., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Yalçın, M. J., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Karamaouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Özkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2023). Cultural fit of emotions and subjective well-being: Replicating comparative evidence and extending it to the Mediterranean region. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
(Special Issue), 5, Article 100171. Open Access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100171
Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Vignoles, V. L., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Yalçın, M.J., Harb, C., Husnu, S., Ishii, K., Jin, S., Karamouna, P., Kafetsios, K., Kateri, E., Matamaros-Lima, J., Liu, D., Miniesy, R., Na, J., Özkan, Z., Pagliaro, S., Psaltis, C., Rabie, D., Teresi, M., & Uchida, Y. (2023). Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(3), 471-495. (covered as research highlight in Nature Reviews Psychology, 14/06/2023). https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000342
Psaltis, C., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., Kovras, I., & Eleftheriou, A. (2023). Role of honor, dignity, and face values in transitional justice in post-conflict Cyprus. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(3), 294–305. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000665
Uskul, A. K., Cross, S., & Günsoy, C. (2023). The role of honour in intrapersonal, interpersonal and intergroup processes. Social Personality Psychology Compass, 17(1), e12719.Open Access https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12719
2022
Cross, S. E., & Uskul, A. K. (2022). The pursuit of honor: Novel contexts, varied approaches, and new developments. In: Gelfand, M. J., Chiu, C-Y., & Hong, Y-Y. (Eds.), Handbook of advances in culture and psychology, 9, 189–244. Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197631669.003.0004
2021
Gul, P., Cross, S. E., & Uskul, A. K. (2021). Implications of culture of honor theory and research for practitioners and prevention researchers. American Psychologist, 76(3), 502-515. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000653
2020
Uskul, A. K., & Cross, S. E. (2020). Socio-ecological roots of cultures of honor. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 177–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.11.001
Uskul, A. K., & Oishi, S. (2020). What is socio-ecological psychology? Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 181-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.01.001
Conference Presentations
2025
Uskul, A. K. (2025, October 21-23). Toward a global psychological science. Chair of Plenary Session. The 2025 APS Global Science summit, virtual. 2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit – Association for Psychological Science – APS
Uskul, A. K. (2025, October 16-18). The role of honor in cooperation and competition: Evidence from the Mediterranean region and beyond. (Oral presentation). Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. SESP
Kirchner-Häusler, A. (2025, September 5-7). Rethinking Japan through the Mediterranean: New Perspectives on Cultural Diversity. (Oral presentation). 89th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, Tohoku Gakuin University, Itsutsubashi Campus, Sendai, Japan. The 89th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association | Confit
Jin, S. (2025, August 22). Honor and antisocial punishment: A multi-lab replication and extension of Hermann et al. (2008). (Oral presentation). Tiber Symposium, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. TIBER symposium | Tilburg University
Jin, S. (2025, July 10-12). Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies. (Oral presentation). Asian Association of Social Psychology conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Asian Association of Social Psychology Conference 2025 | (AASP 2025) Official Website
Jin, S. (2025, June-July 28-1). Honor and anti(pro)social punishment: A multi-lab replication and extension of Hermann et al. (2008). (Oral presentation). IAIR/IACCP conference, Brisbane, Australia. IAIR/IACCP 2025 Joint Conference – Home
Kirchner-Häusler, A. (2025, June-July 28-1). Sorry, not sorry: Unravelling the interplay of apologies and honour in Mediterranean cultures and beyond. (Oral presentation). IAIR/IACCP conference, Brisbane, Australia. IAIR/IACCP 2025 Joint Conference – Home
Cross, S. (2025, April 6-8). Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. (Oral presentation). Social science perspectives on individuals, cultures, and institutions in the Mediterranean region, Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Crete Meeting – HONORLOGIC
Jin, S. (2025, April 6-8). The cultural logic of honor and pro/anti-social punishment: A multi-lab replication and extension. (Oral presentation). Social science perspectives on individuals, cultures, and institutions in the Mediterranean region, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
Crete Meeting – HONORLOGIC
Kirchner-Häusler, A. (2025, April 6-8). Sorry, not sorry: Unravelling the interplay of apologies and honour in Mediterranean cultures. (Oral presentation). Social science perspectives on individuals, cultures, and institutions in the Mediterranean region, Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Crete Meeting – HONORLOGIC
Vignoles, V. (2025, April 6-8). Are Mediterranean societies ‘cultures of honour’? Prevalence and implications of a cultural logic of honour across three world regions. (Oral presentation). Social science perspectives on individuals, cultures, and institutions in the Mediterranean region, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
Crete Meeting – HONORLOGIC
Jin, S. (2025, February 26-28). The cultural logic of honor and pro/anti-social punishment: A multi-lab replication and extension. main conference (Oral presentation).
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver. Annual Convention | SPSP
Jin, S. (2025, February 26-28). Do positive and negative reciprocity go together in the cultural logic of honor? Evidence from 13 societies. (Poster presentation). SPSP Preconference (Advances in Cultural Psychology): Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver. Annual Convention | SPSP
2024
Uskul, A. K. (2024, December 6-7). Neither Western nor Eastern, Where do the Mediterranean societies fall within comparative psychology models? (Oral presentation). 5th social psychology congress, Başkent University department of psychology, Ankara, Turkey.
Uskul, A. K. (2024, December 3-5). Patterns of honor, independence and interdependence in Mediterranean studies. (Oral presentation). The Japan society for the promotion of Science London Symposium. Events : Centre for Research on Cultural and Societal Diversity : University of Sussex
Jin, S. (2024, December 3-5). Institutions and cooperation: A meta-analysis of structural features in social dilemmas. (Oral presentation). The Japan society for the promotion of Science London Symposium. Events : Centre for Research on Cultural and Societal Diversity : University of Sussex
Jin, S. (2024, October 19-20). The cultural logic of honor, cooperation and punishment. (Oral presentation).13th Conference for Chinese Psychologists, Shenzhen, China. Notice of the 13th Academic Symposium on Chinese Psychologists in 2024 (Third Round) | Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University
Jin, S. (2024, August 5-9). Cultural logic of honor in the Mediterranean region: Implications for cognitive processes and behavioural patterns. (Oral presentation). International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology conference on-line. 2024 IACCP International Congress – Bali – International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Kirchner-Häusler, A. (2024, August 5-9). The role of cultural fit in honor and emotions for wellbeing in the Mediterranean and beyond. (Oral presentation). International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology conference on-line. 2024 IACCP International Congress – Bali – International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Jin, S. (2024, July 2-5). Conducting cross-cultural research across labs with local collaborators: Experiences from the HONORLOGIC project. (Oral presentation). Preconference on cross-cultural research in social dilemmas and beyond. International conference on social dilemmas, Leiden University, The Netherlands. International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD) – Leiden University
Jin, S. (2024, July 2-5). The cultural logic of honor, competition and coordination. (Oral presentation). International conference on social dilemmas, Leiden University, The Netherlands. International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD) – Leiden University
Jin, S. (2024, February 8-10). The cultural logic of honor, competition and coordination. (Poster presentation). Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, SanDiego, USA. Past & Future Conventions | SPSP
Uskul, A. K., & HONORLOGIC Team. (2024, February 8-10). Cultural logic of honor in the Mediterranean region: Implications for self-related, relational, and cognitive processes. (Oral presentation). Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, SanDiego, USA. Past & Future Conventions | SPSP
2023
Jin, S., Romano, A., Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler & Vignoles, V. L. (2023, June 30 – July 4). Cultural logic of honor, competition and coordination. (Poster presentation). General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Krakow, Poland.
EASP General Meeting 2023 | EASP
Psaltis, C., Husnu, S., Uskul, A. K., & Kirchner-Häusler, A. (2023, June 30 – July 4). Values endorsement and preferences for transitional justice: The moderating role of apology effectiveness beliefs. (Oral presentation). General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Krakow, Poland. EASP General Meeting 2023 | EASP
Kirchner-Häusler, A., & HONORLOGIC team. (2023, June 30 – July 4). Are Mediterranean societies honor cultures? The cultural logics of honor, face and dignity in Southern-Europe and the MENA region. (Oral presentation). General meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology as part of the symposium “Novel directions in honor research.” Krakow, Poland. EASP General Meeting 2023 | EASP
Uskul A. K., & HONORLOGIC team. (2023, June 30 – July 4). Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. (Oral presentation). General meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology as part of the symposium “Globalizing social psychology: Insights from beyond the East-West cultural binary.” Krakow, Poland. EASP General Meeting 2023 | EASP
Kirchner-Häusler, A., & HONORLOGIC team. (2023, March 9-11). Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well-being in the Mediterranean region. (Poster presentation). International Convention of Psychological Science. Brussels, Belgium. ICPS 2023 – Association for Psychological Science – APS
Uskul, A. K., & HONORLOGIC team. (2023, March 9-11). Neither Eastern nor Western: patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies. (Oral Presentation). International Convention of Psychological Science as part of the symposium “East, West, and the Rest: Exploring Psychological Variation across the Globe.” Brussels, Belgium. ICPS 2023 – Association for Psychological Science – APS
Uskul A. K., & HONORLOGIC team. (2023, February 23-25). Honor, face and dignity in the Mediterranean region and beyond. (Oral presentation). Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology as part of the symposium “Honor to Us All: Advances in Research on Honor Cultures.” Atlanta, USA. Past & Future Conventions | SPSP
2022
Kirchner-Häusler, A., & HONORLOGIC team. (2022, July 28 – August 2). The cultural logic of relationships in dignity, face, and honor regions. (Oral presentation). International Association of Relationship Research Conference. Virtual. IARR – Conferences
Uskul, A. K. & HONORLOGIC team. (July 2022). Honor in the Mediterranean region. (Oral presentation). Regional Cultural Differences Conference. Barcelona, Spain.
Uskul, A. K. & HONORLOGIC team. (2022, July 12-16). Regional differences in interdependence: The case of Mediterranean honor cultures. (Oral presentation). 26th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). Virtual. 2022 International Congress of IACCP – International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Psaltis, C., Kirchner-Häusler, A., Uskul, A. K., & Eleftheriou, A. (2022, July 14-17). The role of honor, dignity, and face values in transitional justice preferences in post-conflict Cyprus. (Oral presentation). International Society for Political Psychology Annual Meeting. Athens, Greece. Democracy as an Achievement: Recognizing Tensions, Challenges, and Aspirations through Political Psychology – ISPP
Kirchner-Häusler, A., & HONORLOGIC team. (2022, June 10-11). The relationship between cultural fit in emotions and subjective wellbeing. (Oral presentation). Consortium of European Research on Emotions (CERE). Granada, Spain. Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE) 2022 conference | SEPEX
Uskul, A. K. (2022, June 10-12). Researching the self, relationality, and cognition circum Mediterranean: A comparative approach. (Oral presentation). Invited keynote at the 2nd Annual meeting in behavioural and experimental economics at the British University of Egypt, Experimental and Behavioural Economics Lab (EBEL), Egypt.
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Uskul, A. K. (2022, February 2-4). Cultural differences in social orientation and cognitive style: New insights from circum Mediterranean. (Oral presentation). Invited speaker at the (Virtual) SPSP Advances in cultural psychology pre-conference. San Francisco, USA. Past & Future Conventions | SPSP
Uskul, A. K. (2022, February 2-4). Speaker at the How to establish international and cross-cultural research collaborations. Professional development session at the (Virtual) Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention. San Francisco, USA. Past & Future Conventions | SPSP
2021
Lamoreux, T., Castillo, V. A., Cross, S. E., Uskul, A. K., Kirchner-Häusler, A., & Vignoles, V. (2021, April 22-24). Honor values and self-construal. (Poster presentation). 93rd Annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL, United States. MPA
Uskul, A. K., & Cooper, L. (2021, February 9-13). Conducting social psychological research in non-WEIRD settings: challenges and opportunities. (Professional development session). Annual convention of the SPSP. Virtual. SPSP 2021 Convention Goes Virtual | SPSP