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Mercadante, E., Witkower, Z., & Tracy, J. L. (in press).
The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Download PDFWitkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Pun, A., & Baron, A. (in press).
Can children recognize bodily expressions of emotion?
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
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We don’t make WEIRD faces: A brief history of emotion expression research in small-scale societies.
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries
Journal of Personality
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How and why head position changes the perception of facial expressions of emotion.
Emotion
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Why social status is essential (but sometimes insufficient) for leadership.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Picking up good vibrations: Uncovering the content of distinct positive emotion subjective experience.
Emotion
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Pride and the self-conscious emotions.
In L. Yang, R. Cropanzano, C. Daus, & V. Martinez-Tur (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Download PDFBeall, A. T., & Tracy, J. L. (in press).
The evolution of pride and shame.
Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., & Weidman, A. C. (in press).
The self-conscious and social emotions: A personality and social functionalist account.
Handbook of Personality: New Directions and Emerging Issues (4th Edition).
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Witkower, Z., Mercadante, E., & Tracy, J. L. (2020).
How affect shapes status: Distinct emotional experiences and expressions facilitate social hierarchy navigation.
Current Opinion in Psychology
Download PDFWeidman, A. C., & Tracy, J. L. (2020).
A provisional taxonomy of subjectively experienced positive emotions.
Affective Science, 1, 57-86.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Mercadante, E. J., Witkower, Z., & Cheng, J. T. (2020).
The evolution of pride and social hierarchy.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 51-114.
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What matters emotionally: The importance of pride for cumulative culture.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e180.
Download PDFWitkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., & Henrich, J. (2020).
Two signals of social rank: Prestige and dominance are associated with distinct nonverbal displays.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 89-121.
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Tracy, J. L., Steckler, C., & Heltzel, G. (2019).
The physiological basis of psychological disgust and moral judgments.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 15-32.
Download PDFKeltner, D., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Cowen, A. (2019).
Emotional expression: Advances in basic emotion theory.
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 195-201.
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“Head-ing” towards a new understanding of face perception.
Character and Context (SPSP Media Newsletter, August 13, 2019).
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Cowen, A., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Keltner, D. (2019).
Mapping the passions: Toward a high dimensional taxonomy of emotional experience and expression.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 20, 69-90.
Download PDFKeltner, D., Tracy, J. L., Sauter, D., & Cowen, A. (2019).
What basic emotion theory really says for the 21st Century study of emotion.
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 195-201.
Download PDFGardiner, G., ... Tracy, J. L., ... & Funder, D. (2019).
Assessing personality across 13 countries using the California Adult Q-Set.
International Journal of Personality Psychology, 5, 1-17.
Download PDFWitkower, Z., & Tracy, J. L. (2019).
A facial action imposter: How head tilt influences perceptions of dominance from a neutral face.
Psychological Science, 30, 893-906.
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Witkower, Z. & Tracy, J. L. (2018).
Bodily communication of emotion: Evidence for extra-facial behavioral expressions and available coding systems.
Emotion Review, 11, 184-193.
Download PDFBaranski, E., ... Tracy, J.L.,... & Funder, D.C. (2018).
Comparisons of daily behavior across 21 countries.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 252-266.
Download PDFWeidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2018).
The psychological structure of humility.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 153-178.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Steckler, C., Randles, D., & Mercadante, E. (2018).
The financial cost of status signaling: Expansive postural displays are associated with a reduction in the receipt of altruistic donations.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 520-528.
Download PDFSchaumberg, R. L., Flynn, F. J., & Tracy, J. L. (2018).
The benefits and drawbacks of guilt in the workplace.
In L. Ferris, R. Johnson, & C. Sedikides (Eds.), The self at work: Fundamental theory and research (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Frontiers Series; pp. 172-193). New York: Routledge.
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Beall, A. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2017).
Emotivational psychology: How distinct emotions facilitate fundamental motives.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Download PDFWeidman, A. C. & Tracy, J. L. (2017).
How to study the structure of emotions? A welcome call to action and a pragmatic proposal.
Psychological Inquiry, 27, 63-67. [commentary]
Download PDFWeidman, A. C., Steckler, C., & Tracy, J. L. (2017).
The jingle and jangle of emotion assessment: Imprecise measurement, casual scale usage, and conceptual fuzziness in emotion research.
Emotion, 17, 267-295.
Download PDFWeidman, A. C. & Tracy, J. L. (2017).
Is humility a sentiment?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 41-42 [commentary]
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Keltner, D., Tracy, J. L., Sauter, D. A., Cordaro, D. C., & McNeil, G. (2016).
Expression of emotion.
In L.F. Barrett, The Handbook of Emotions (4th Edition, pp. 467-482).
Download PDFTracy, J. L. (2016).
Outrageousness is Trump's trump card.
USA Today
Weidman, A. C., Tracy, J. L., & Elliot, A. J. (2016).
The benefits of following your pride: Authentic pride promotes achievement.
Journal of Personality
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The world at 7: Comparing the experience of situations across 20 countries.
Journal of Personality
Download PDFCheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Ho, S., & Henrich, J. (2016).
Listen, follow me: Dynamics vocal signals of dominance predict emergent social rank in humans.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 536-547.
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Randles, D., & Tracy, J. L. (2015).
Shame.
Vocabulary for the Study of Religion. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
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The puzzling attractiveness of shame.
Evolutionary Psychology
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Is she the one? Personality judgments from online personal advertisements.
Personal Relationships, 22, 591-603.
Download PDFShi, Y., Chung, J. M., Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., Chen, X., & Zheng, Y. (2015).
Cross-cultural evidence for the two-factor structure of pride.
Journal of Research in Personality
Download PDFTracy, J. L., & Laurin, K. (2015).
Will thinking machines think about themselves?
Edge Annual Question, "What do you think about machines that think?"
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Randles, D., & Steckler, C. M. (2015).
The nonverbal communication of emotions.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 25-30.
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Tracy, J. L. (2014).
An evolutionary approach to understanding distinct emotions.
Emotion Review, 6, 308-312.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., & Martens, J. P. (2014).
Pride: The fundamental emotion of success, power, and status.
In Tugade, Shiota, & Kirby (Eds.), Handbook of positive emotion (pp. 294-310). New York: Guildford Press.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Klonsky, E. D., & Proudfit, G. H. (2014).
How affective science can inform clinical science: An introduction to the special series on emotions and psychopathology.
Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 371-386.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2014).
Conceptual and empirical strengths of the Authentic/ Hubristic Model of pride.
Emotion, 14, 33-37.
Download PDFMcFerran, B., Aquino, K., & Tracy, J. L. (2014).
Evidence for two facets of pride in consumption: Findings from luxury brands.
Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24, 455-471.
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Author's Response: Incompatible conclusions or different levels of analysis?
Emotion Review, 6, 330-331.
Download PDFCheng, J. T., Weidman, A. C., & Tracy, J. L. (2014).
The assessment of social status: A review of measures and experimental manipulations
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 347-362). New York: Springer.
Download PDFSteckler, C. M., & Tracy, J. L. (2014).
The Emotional Underpinnings of Social Status
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 201-224). New York: Springer.
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Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank.
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 3-27). New York: Springer.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., & Beall, A. T. (2014).
The impact of weather on women’s tendency to wear red or pink when at high risk for conception.
PLoS ONE, 9(2): e88852. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088852.
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Randles, D., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).
Shamed into taking a drink? Nonverbal displays of shame predict relapse and worsening health among recovering alcoholics.
Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 149-155.
Download PDFDunlop, W. L., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).
Sobering stories: Narratives of self-redemption predict behavioral change and improved health among recovering alcoholics.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 576-590.
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Pride: It brings out the best--and worst--in humans.
Scientific American Mind
Elliot, A. J., Tracy, J. L., Pazda, A. D., & Beall, A. T. (2013).
Red enhances women’s attractiveness to men: First evidence suggesting universality
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 165-168.
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Saleem, Shiva, and status: Authentic and hubristic pride personified in Midnight’s Children.
Interdisciplinary Humanities, 30, 5-29.
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The emotional origins of a social learning bias: Does the pride expression cue copying?
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 492-499.
Download PDFCheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L. & Miller, G. E. (2013).
Are narcissists hardy or vulnerable? The role of narcissism in the production of stress-related biomarkers in response to daily emotional distress.
Emotion, 13, 1004-1011.
Download PDFDunlop, W. L., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).
The autobiography of addiction: Autobiographical reasoning and psychological adjustment in abstinent alcoholics.
Memory, 21, 64-78.
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Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A., & Henrich, J. (2013).
Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 103–125.
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The impact of wealth on prestige and dominance rank relationships.
Psychological Inquiry, 24, 102-108.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., Zhao, W., & Henrich, J. (2013).
Cross-Cultural Evidence that the Nonverbal Expression of Pride is an Automatic Status Signal
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 163-180.
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Unmitigated Arrogance.
Edge Annual Question 2013: What Should We Be Worried About? http://edge.org/response-detail/23850
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Women more likely to wear red or pink at peak fertility.
Psychological Science, 24, 1837-1841.
See also published Online Supplement. Also click here for our briefer and longer responses to recent critiques of this article by Andrew Gelman.
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Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Sherman, J. (2012).
The practice of psychological science in social-personality research: Are we still a science of two disciplines?
In R. W. Proctor, & E. J. Capaldi (Eds.), Psychology of Science: Implicit and Explicit Reasoning (pp. 335-360). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Self-conscious emotions.
In M. Leary, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (2nd Edition, pp. 446-478). Guilford: New York.
Download PDFAshton-James, C. E., & Tracy, J. L. (2012).
Pride and prejudice: Feelings about the self influence judgments of others.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 466-476.
Download PDFMartens, J. P., Tracy, J. L., & Shariff, A. F. (2012).
Status signals: Adaptive benefits of displaying and observing the nonverbal expressions of pride and shame.
Cognition and Emotion, 26, 390-406.
Download PDFShariff, A. F., Tracy, J. L., & Markusoff, J. (2012).
(Implicitly) Judging a Book By Its Cover: The Power of Pride and Shame Expressions in Shaping Judgments of Social Status
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1178-1193.
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