IAIR/IACCP conference at the University of Queensland

The first-ever joint meeting of the International Academy of Intercultural Research and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology took place this year on the beautiful campus of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Lusine Grigoryan chaired a symposium on "Cultures of Dignity, Honor, and Face: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Links to Prosociality". The symposium brought together four talks, all based on cross-cultural data. In the first talk, Lusine described the process of collaborative co-creation of a questionnaire to measure the three cultural logics and the results of a subsequent study that maps the prevalence of these cultural logics across more than 60 countries.

In the second talk, Ani Grigoryan from Yerevan State University focused on the interplay between these cultural logics and behavioral manifestations of prosociality, including universal prosociality and positive and negative reciprocity.

In the third talk, Shuxian Jin from the University of Sussex took a deeper dive into the question of how cooperation is maintained within each cultural logic by looking at the links between cultural logics and antisocial and prosocial punishment.

Finally, in the fourth talk, Alexander Kirchner-Häusler from Kyoto University focused on what happens when cooperation breaks down and the use of apologies as a tool for reconciliation in honor cultures.

Together, these talks showcased the most recent advances in the conceptualization and measurement of the cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face, and presented findings on the role of these cultural logics in prosociality and cooperation from more than 70 cultural contexts.