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The South in Modern America A Region at Odds (review)

The South in Modern America A Region at Odds (review) William A. Link Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 1, 1997, pp. 83-87 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0042 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424309/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:06 GMT from JHU Libraries Walker Percy, or a young southerner, subject to a sociology experiment, who is bumped in an Ann Arbor hallway, called "asshole," then practically run down in a long corridor by a six-foot-three, 2 5 o-pound football player. One's testosterone level spikes at the mere retelling of the clever, even diaboli- cal experiments devised by Nisbett and Cohen. So too did the Cortisol levels (sig- nifying stress, anxiety, and arousal ) and testosterone levels (signifying aggression and dominance) of the southerners, but not the northerners, used in die Michi- gan experiments. Is this because the young southerners' culture long ago sur- vived as a herding economy? It makes more sense to suggest that these real hor- monal changes in southerners occur because their ability to neutralize blind aggressive impulses are simply inadequate and that, in ways one cannot discuss in a short review, this weakness derives from deficits or wounds in the core part of the psyche. If we http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The South in Modern America A Region at Odds (review)

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William A. Link Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 1, 1997, pp. 83-87 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0042 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424309/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:06 GMT from JHU Libraries Walker Percy, or a young southerner, subject to a sociology experiment, who is bumped in an Ann Arbor hallway, called "asshole," then practically run down in a long corridor by a six-foot-three, 2 5 o-pound football player. One's testosterone level spikes at the mere retelling of the clever, even diaboli- cal experiments devised by Nisbett and Cohen. So too did the Cortisol levels (sig- nifying stress, anxiety, and arousal ) and testosterone levels (signifying aggression and dominance) of the southerners, but not the northerners, used in die Michi- gan experiments. Is this because the young southerners' culture long ago sur- vived as a herding economy? It makes more sense to suggest that these real hor- monal changes in southerners occur because their ability to neutralize blind aggressive impulses are simply inadequate and that, in ways one cannot discuss in a short review, this weakness derives from deficits or wounds in the core part of the psyche. If we

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