Zak PNAS Nexus – smiles
In research led by Zak Witkower, smile variation is shown to accurately leak personality. See here for the article in press at PNAS-Nexus.
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New research led by lab collaborator Ashley Martin shows that gender cognition– the tendency to see gender in non-human entities, and to see those entities as more human to the extent that they are gendered– is a human universal. See…
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Read more »CDPS published
Jess Tracy, Ian Hohm, and Ari Makridakis present new ideas (and some data) suggesting that science erodes humans’ ability to find meaning in life, now published at Current Directions in Psychological Science.
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Read more »Jess APF invited talk at APA 2024
Jess Tracy, “Pride: The Emotional Foundation of Social Rank” at the APF Spielberger EMPathy Symposium, APA Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. August, 2024
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Read more »Zak JEPG in press
Now in press at JEP:G: Studies led by Zak Witkower show that the dominance nonverbal display is reliably recognized as dominance (and not confused with prestige) by indigenous people in the Mayagna tribe in Nicaragua and by Canadian children as…
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Read more »Eric greed JP in press
Now at Journal of Personality: Eric Mercadante and Jess Tracy’s paper demonstrating that greedy acquisition may be motivated by a desire for pride.
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Read more »Eric PNAS
Eric Mercadante, Jess Tracy, and Fritz Gotz’s paper showing that greed language in senatorial tweets predicts retweets and likes now published in PNAS.
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Read more »Eric SPSP Personality Pre Con talk
Eric Mercadante, “When does narcissism predict shame? Not when you might expect.” Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference on Personality Science Atlanta, GA. February 23, 2023
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Read more »Jess Kellogg talk
Jess Tracy, “Pride: The emotional foundation of social rank attainment” Kellogg MORS Seminar Series, Northwestern University Evanston, IL. March 1, 2023
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Read more »Zak Emotion commentary
Recent meta-analysis demonstrates a significant association between facial expressions and experience of distinct emotions. Check out our commentary, led by Zak Witkower, now in press at Emotion.