Joey Cheng, “Listen, follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence.” In the symposium,“Psychophysical cues to fertility, leadership capacity, trustworthiness, and health” (J.T. Cheng, & J.L. Tracy, Chairs), at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Washington…
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.
What is an emotion? We’ve all read about how this question has puzzled psychologists for over a century, notably since the publication of William James’ famous article of the same name. The same question apparently intrigued theologians, philosophers, and physicians…
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…
The Decade of Navel Gazing (2010–???) took another step toward cementing its legacy this week with the publication of Nosek and Bar-Anan’s proposal for Scientific Utopia. The authors present a six-step program which would help psychology increase the efficiency, speed, and…
We have all heard by now that replication is the panacea for the ills plaguing social psychology. Whether we fear single-study papers containing tenuous effects reached through undisclosed analytical flexibility, post-hoc justifications of results that were entirely unanticipated, or downright…
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