New research from Joey Cheng, Jess Tracy, Simon Ho, and Joe Henrich shows that dynamic shifts in vocal pitch, naturally occurring in the early moments of a social interaction, influence emergent rank outcomes. Read the paper, now published at JEP:General,…
Exciting news — Lab Manger Jeff Markusoff had a super adorable baby! Impressively, Jeff and Leanne are already taking the little guy out for important Vancouver events like the Folk Fest.
Aaron Weidman, “The benefits of following your pride: Authentic pride promotes achievement.” In the symposium, “The function of distinct emotions in everyday social situations,” at SPSP. San Diego, CA. January 30th, 2016.
Jess, Dan Randles, and Conor Steckler’s review article on the nonverbal communication of emotions, now published open access in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Watch the video of Jess’ talk, as well as talks by David Puts and Klaus Scherer, on Nonverbal Communication across species, in an Integrative Science Symposium at the International Convention for Psychological Science in Amsterdam this past March.
Jess Tracy, From Pride to Social Rank Social/Personality Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. March 27, 2018 Toronto, ON
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.