This research shows that shame plays an important role in retaliation for participants from an honor culture, an even more important role than anger. In a scenario study (N = 77), comparing insulted and non-insulted participants from honor cultures and nonhonor cultures, participants responded...

Structural Adaptation Theory proposes that it is more difficult for teams to change from competitive to cooperative reward conditions than it is for them to change in the opposite direction, and this has been labeled the cutthroat cooperation effect [Johnson, M. D., Hollenbeck, J. R., Ilgen, D....