Jess Tracy, “The Irrepressible Communicative Power of the Emotion Expressions of Pride and Shame” In the symposium,“Face it! Context reveals what the face conceals” (H. Aviezer, Chair), at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Washington DC. May,…
New research by Alec Beall and Jess Tracy shows that women are more likely to dress in red when they are at peak fertility. Read the paper, now published at Psych Science. Read the Online Supplement here, and our follow-up now published in…
Joey Cheng, “Listen, Follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence” SPSP Pre-Conference on Nonverbal Behavior Data Blitz, New Orleans, LA January 17, 2012
Dan Randles’ and Jess Tracy’s paper in Clinical Psych Science, showing that nonverbal displays of shame predict relapse and worsened health among recovering alcoholics, is a “Top-Read” article of 2013. Read the paper here. Read Huffington Post coverage here.
New research from Will Dunlop and Jess Tracy suggests that newly sober alcoholics who talk about their last drink in redemptive terms are over 40% more likely to stay sober, months later, than those who don’t. Narrated redemption also predicts…
Jess Tracy, “What is a basic emotion?” In the symposium, “What is an Emotion”, at the SPSP Emotion Pre-conference, New Orleans, LA. January 17th, 2013, 3:00 pm
New research from the lab in collaboration with Andy Elliot shows that men in Burkina Faso find women in red more attractive, suggesting that red may be a universal sexual signal. Read the paper in press at JESP here.
Nonverbal pride displays function to bias social learning. Read Jason Martens’ and Jess’ paper– online early edition now available at SPPS.
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.