Lab awarded a CIHR Operational Grant!
New grant just awarded from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) will fund a major new project on self-conscious emotions and alcoholism. To learn more about this project click here.
New grant just awarded from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) will fund a major new project on self-conscious emotions and alcoholism. To learn more about this project click here.
New research by Joey Cheng, Jess Tracy, and other UBC collaborators showing that Dominance and Prestige are both effective routes to social influence, now published at JPSP. Read the CNN story here.
Joey Cheng, Jess, & Joe Henrich’s (2010) paper on The Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status was the 11th most downloaded article from Evolution and Human Behavior in 2011
For those who haven’t kept up to date with the recent published papers, blog posts, and media reports on the state of psychological science and social psychology in particular, I strongly recommend Brent Roberts’ blog post: Roberts, B. W. (2012).…
New research from the lab shows that the pride expression is likely to be a universal implicit status signal– now in press at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Read the paper here.
Pride and shame expressions communicate status more powerfully than competing contextual information– paper by Azim Shariff, Jess, and Jeff Markusoff published at PSPB.
Lab Happy Hour And… lab members in action
Joey Cheng, “Dominance and Prestige: Distinct routes to social influence” in a symposium chaired by Joey and Jess on “The Pursuit of Social Status”. Other speakers include Robb Willer, Nathaniel Fast, and Nir Halevy. SPSP Conference San Diego, CA Saturday,…