Weidman, A. C., & Tracy, J. L. (2020).

A provisional taxonomy of subjectively experienced positive emotions.

Affective Science, 1, 57-86.

Tracy, 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.

Tracy, J. (2020).

Find something morally sickening? Take a ginger pill.

Aeon

Tracy, J. L. (2020)

What matters emotionally: The importance of pride for cumulative culture.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e180.

Witkower, 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.

Keltner, D., Sauter, D., Tracy, J. L., & Cowen, A. (2019).

Emotional expression: Advances in basic emotion theory.

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43, 195-201.

Witkower, Z. & Tracy, J. L. (2019).

“Head-ing” towards a new understanding of face perception.

Character and Context (SPSP Media Newsletter, August 13, 2019).

Click here for full article online.

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.

Keltner, 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.

Gardiner, 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.

Witkower, 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.

Baranski, E., ... Tracy, J.L.,... & Funder, D.C. (2018).

Comparisons of daily behavior across 21 countries.

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 252-266.

Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2018).

The psychological structure of humility.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 153-178.

Tracy, 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.

Schaumberg, 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.

Weidman, 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]

Weidman, 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.

Weidman, A. C. & Tracy, J. L. (2017).

Is humility a sentiment?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 41-42 [commentary]

Tracy, 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

Guillaume, E., ... Tracy, J. L., ... & Funder, D. C. (2016).

The world at 7: Comparing the experience of situations across 20 countries.

Journal of Personality

Cheng, 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.

Beall, A. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2015).

The puzzling attractiveness of shame.

Evolutionary Psychology

Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., Chisholm, C., & Tracy, J. L. (2015).

Is she the one? Personality judgments from online personal advertisements.

Personal Relationships, 22, 591-603.

Shi, 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

Tracy, J. L., & Laurin, K. (2015).

Will thinking machines think about themselves?

Edge Annual Question, "What do you think about machines that think?"

Tracy, J. L., Randles, D., & Steckler, C. M. (2015).

The nonverbal communication of emotions.

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 25-30.

Tracy, 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.

Tracy, 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.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2014).

Conceptual and empirical strengths of the Authentic/ Hubristic Model of pride.

Emotion, 14, 33-37.

McFerran, 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.

Tracy, J. L. (2014).

Author's Response: Incompatible conclusions or different levels of analysis?

Emotion Review, 6, 330-331.

Cheng, 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.

Steckler, 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.

Cheng, J. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2014).

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.

Tracy, 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.

Dunlop, 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.

Tracy, J. L. (2013).

Pride: It brings out the best--and worst--in humans.

Scientific American Mind

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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.

Weidman, A. C. & Tracy, J. L. (2013).

Saleem, Shiva, and status: Authentic and hubristic pride personified in Midnight’s Children.

Interdisciplinary Humanities, 30, 5-29.

Martens, J. P., & Tracy, J. L.. (2013).

The emotional origins of a social learning bias: Does the pride expression cue copying?

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 492-499.

Cheng, 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.

Dunlop, W. L., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).

The autobiography of addiction: Autobiographical reasoning and psychological adjustment in abstinent alcoholics.

Memory, 21, 64-78.

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.

Cheng, J. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).

The impact of wealth on prestige and dominance rank relationships.

Psychological Inquiry, 24, 102-108.

Tracy, 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.

Tracy, J. L. (2013).

Unmitigated Arrogance.

Edge Annual Question 2013: What Should We Be Worried About? http://edge.org/response-detail/23850

Beall, A. T., & Tracy, J. L. (2013).

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.  

Tangney, J. P., & Tracy, J. L. (2012).

Self-conscious emotions.

In M. Leary, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (2nd Edition, pp. 446-478). Guilford: New York.

Ashton-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.

Martens, 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.

Shariff, 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.

Tracy, J. L., & Prehn, C. (2012).

Arrogant or self-confident? The use of contextual knowledge to differentiate hubristic and authentic pride from a single nonverbal expression.

Cognition & Emotion, 26, 14-24.

Mosewich, A. D., Kowalski, K. C., Sabiston, C. M., Sedgwick, W. A., & Tracy, J. L. (2011).

Self-Compassion: A potential resource for young women athletes.

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 33, 103-123.

Tracy, J. L., Hart, J., & Martens, J. P. (2011).

Death and science: The existential underpinnings of belief in intelligent design and discomfort with evolution.

PLoS ONE, 6: e17349. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017349.

Tracy, J. L., & Beall, A. (2011).

Happy guys finish last: The impact of emotion expressions on sexual attraction.

Emotion, 11, 1379-1387.

Tracy, J. L. (2011).

Emotions of inequality [Review of S. Fiske, “Envy up, scorn down: How status divides us”]

Science

(Summary) (Full Text)

Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., Martens, J. P., & Robins, R. W. (2011)

The affective core of narcissism: Inflated by pride, deflated by shame.

Handbook of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder

Tracy, J. L., & Randles, D. (2011).

Four models of basic emotions: A review of Ekman and Cordaro, Izard, Levenson, and Panksepp and Watt.

Emotion Review, 3, 397-405.

Shariff, A. F., & Tracy, J. L. (2011)

Emotion expressions: On signals, symbols, and spandrels.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 407-408.

Shariff, A. F., & Tracy, J. L. (2011)

What are emotion expressions for?

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 395-399.

Shariff, A. F., Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., & Henrich, J. (2010).

Further thoughts on the evolution of pride’s two facets: A response to Clark.

Emotion Review, 2, 399-400 [author reply].

Shariff, A. F., Tracy, J. L., & Cheng, J. T. (2010).

Naturalism and the tale of two facets.

Emotion Review, 2, 182-183 [authors' response

Tracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., & Cheng, J. T. (2010).

A naturalist’s view of pride.

Emotion Review, 2, 163-177 [target article]

Tracy, J. L. (2010).

Pride.

In I. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Psychology (Fourth Edition, pp.1284-1286). New York: John Wiley.

Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Henrich, J. (2010).

Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status.

Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 334-347.

(Supplementary Material)

Foulsham, T., Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Henrich, J., & Kingstone, A. (2010).

Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking.

Cognition, 117, 319-331.

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Sherman, J. (2009).

Will the real personality psychologist, and the real social psychologist, please stand up?

Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 272-273.

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Sherman, J. W. (2009).

The practice of psychological science: Searching for Cronbach’s two streams in Social-Personality Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1206-1225.

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Schriber, R. A. (2009).

Development of a FACS-verified set of basic and self-conscious emotion expressions.

Emotion, 9, 554-559.

Shariff, A. F., & Tracy, J. L. (2009).

Knowing who’s boss: Implicit perceptions of status from the nonverbal expression of pride.

Emotion, 9, 631-639

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2008).

The nonverbal expression of pride: Evidence for cross-cultural recognition.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 516-530.

Tracy, J. L., & Matsumoto, D. (2008).

The spontaneous expression of pride and shame: Evidence for biologically innate nonverbal displays.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 11655-11660.

(Supporting Information)

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007).

The psychological structure of pride: A tale of two facets.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 506-525.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007).

Emerging insights into the nature and function of pride.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 147-150.

Robins, R. W., Noftle, E. E., & Tracy, J. L. (2007).

Assessing self-conscious emotions: A review of self-report and nonverbal measures.

In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and Research. New York: Guilford.

Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., & Sherman, J. W. (2007).

What makes a personality psychologist? A survey of journal editors and editorial board members.

In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology. New York: Guilford.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007).

The nature of pride.

In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research. New York: Guilford.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007).

The self in self-conscious emotions: A cognitive appraisal approach.

In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research. New York, NY: Guilford.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007).

The prototypical pride expression: Development of a nonverbal behavioral coding system.

Emotion, 7, 789-801.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004).

Keeping the self in self-conscious emotions: Further arguments for a theoretical model.

Psychological Inquiry, 15, 171-177. [authors response]

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004).

Putting the self into self-conscious emotions: A theoretical model.

Psychological Inquiry, 15, 103-125.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004).

Show your pride: Evidence for a discrete emotion expression.

Psychological Science, 15, 194-197.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003).

Does pride belong in the pantheon?

Emotion Researcher, 7-8.

Tracy, J. L., Shaver, P. R., Albino, A. W., & Cooper, M. L. (2003).

Attachment styles and adolescent sexuality.

In P. Florsheim (Ed.), Adolescent romance and sexual behavior: Theory, research, and practical implications (pp.137-159). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Gosling, S. (2003).

Tracking trends in psychological science: An empirical analysis of the history of psychology (pp. 105-130)

In T. C. Dalton & R. B. Evans (Eds.), The lifecycle of psychological ideas: Understanding prominence and the dynamics of intellectual change. New York: Kluwer Publishers.

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003).

Death of a (narcissistic) salesman: An integrative model of fragile self-esteem.

Psychological Inquiry, 14, 57-62. [commentary]

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003).

Does pride have a recognizable expression?

In P. Ekman, J. J. Campos, R. J. Davidson, & F. B. M. de Waal (Eds.), Emotions inside out: 130 years after Darwin’s The expression of emotions in man and animals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 1-3.

Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., Trzesniewski, K., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. (2001).

Personality correlates of self-esteem: Age and sex differences.

Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 463-482.