Table 1 Summary of descriptives

From: Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies

Society

N

Language

Percentage female (%)

Mean age (s.d.)

% Comp (E)

% Coop (E)

PNH (O)

PNH (F)

Egypt

270

Arabic

50.38

40.78 (14.00)

69.45 (60.20)

66.54 (62.20)

6.03

0.41

Greece

255

Greek

49.61

40.59 (13.76)

64.86 (57.25)

64.15 (60.41)

5.29

0.19

Greek Cypriot community

269

Greek

50.93

41.22 (14.20)

65.72 (59.55)

64.13 (62.88)

5.35

0.48

Italy

270

Italian

50.37

41.14 (14.21)

62.34 (57.42)

62.57 (60.75)

5.04

−0.09

Japan

261

Japanese

49.23

41.56 (14.91)

64.12 (57.09)

57.06 (56.44)

4.50

−0.34

Lebanon

250

Arabic

53.01

39.25 (12.83)

61.17 (50.36)

59.69 (56.84)

5.64

−0.08

Morocco

260

Arabic

49.22

39.81 (13.15)

67.66 (59.25)

63.71 (59.56)

5.66

0.55

South Korea

271

Korean

49.82

41.21 (14.61)

62.00 (55.50)

60.13 (60.06)

4.89

0.05

Spain

249

Spanish

48.19

40.81 (14.30)

62.76 (54.73)

61.55 (58.20)

4.98

−0.16

Turkish Cypriot community

245

Turkish

49.80

40.32 (14.46)

59.42 (57.61)

59.62 (59.62)

5.05

0.17

Türkiye

260

Turkish

50.77

40.72 (14.01)

67.62 (61.79)

66.66 (64.45)

5.50

0.15

United Kingdom

255

English

49.80

41.47 (15.79)

62.51 (55.69)

60.95 (56.14)

4.45

−0.60

USA

256

English

51.01

41.33 (16.25)

62.22 (55.68)

61.42 (57.77)

4.44

−0.72

Total

3,371

 

50.16

40.79 (14.36)

64.03 (57.13)

62.20 (59.68)

5.14

 
  1. % Comp (E), percentage of competitive investments (percentage of expectations of others’ competitive investments); % Coop (E), percentage of cooperative investments (percentage of expectations of others’ cooperative investments); PNH (O), societal mean of perceived normative honour values (observed score); PNH (F), societal-level perceived normative honour values (factor score). See Supplementary Table 35 for more summary information on the age range, parents’ education level, subjective social status, ethnicity and living environment (for example, urban or rural) of the sample from each society.