Now in press at Journal of Personality: Aaron Weidman, Jess Tracy, and Andy Elliott’s longitudinal research showing that authentic pride motivates achievement-oriented behavioral change and, as a result, actual improvements in exam performance.
Read Jess and Kristin Laurin’s answer to the Edge.com Annual Question, “What do you think about machines that think?”
Conor Steckler, “Signal Police: The Social Punishment of Unwarranted Expansive Postural Displays” Human Behavior and Evolution Society Bi-Annual Meeting. Vancouver, B.C. June 30th, 2016.
Dan Randles, “Escaping shame: Shame displays predict problems with drug and alcohol abuse in healthy and addicted populations.” Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference New York, NY. May, 2014.
In response to Uli Schimmack’s December 25, 2014 blog post on our research: This post is a good example of why peer review is essential to our science. Unlike published articles, un-reviewed blog posts do not need to include appropriate…
Jess Tracy, “Title TBA” Invited TED-style Talk, Society of Affective Science Annual Meeting Oakland, CA. April 10th, 2015.
In a recent blog post, Uri Simonnsohn referred to Andrew Gelman’s Slate.com attack on our research, which found that women who are at high risk for conception are more likely to wear red or pink than women at low conception…
Jess Tracy, “Pride and the Emotional Underpinnings of Social Rank” Invited Talk, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Management Los Angeles, CA. April 3, 2015.
Many thanks to Barry Karlsson and the wonderful scholars at Uppsala University, who recently hosted Jess as she gave the keynote address at a Roundtable on Pride, Peace, and Conflict. It was a fantastic day, filled with exciting debate and…
Jess Tracy, “The Power of Pride: The Positive Emotion that Drives Rank Attainment but can also Inhibit Behavioural Change” In the symposium, “The Positive Cost: Personal Costs to Experiencing and Expressing Positive Emotion”, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual…