EMOTION AND MOTIVATION

Vanessa Urbina, Kelly Larsen, Sara Slayden

Pride

What is pride?What are the characteristics of pride?What does pride look like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k013ww-w0as

What does pride look like?

Head and neck slightly tilted back

Expanded posture

Slight smile

Adapted from: Human Emotion; Professor June Gruber, Yale University. June 4,2013

Status and Pride

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47. Web.

Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status

Introduction Universal differential social status

High social rank correlated with higher inclusive fitness

Influence, access, resources allocation

Pride as a psychological mechanism to motivate the individual

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47.

Hypothesis

Research shows 2 types of pride and 2 types of status…. Pride: hubristic and authentic

Status: dominance and prestige

Are these connected??? Hypothesis: Hubristic pride will be positively correlated with dominance and authentic pride

will be positively correlated with prestige.

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47.

Methods

Measurements of :

Self rated status (prestige and dominance)

Self rated pride (hubristic and authentic)

Peer related pride

Measures of personality traits

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47.

Conclusions

Hubristic pride associated with dominance

Authentic pride associated with prestige

Both forms of status allow for higher inclusive fitness

“…hubristic pride may have evolved to motivate behaviors, thoughts, and feelings toward attaining dominance, whereas authentic pride may have evolved to motivate behaviors, thoughts, and feelings oriented toward attaining prestige” pg 336)

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47.

Conclusion

Correlation between different types of pride and personality traits

Possible explanation?

Cheng, Joey T., Jessica L. Tracy, and Joseph Henrich. "Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status." Evolution and Human Behavior 31.5 (2010): 334-47.

Critical Review: Some interesting points

Distinction between hubristic and authentic pride

Psychologists have shown that dominance and prestige, assessed through self-reports, have divergent relations with basal testosterone levels

Women seem to prefer prestigious over dominant men

Critical Review: Unclear points

Attaining status through prestige evolved once we obtained the capacity for culture; Cheng et al claim this phenomenon is one that is not seen in non-humans they claim

The first experiment had individuals report about their own pride, status, and the personality traits they believed led to these pride and status positions

The authors predicted that genuine self-esteem would positively predict a prestigious status while it would negatively predict or have no relation to a dominance status

THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS?