Humility paper in press
New paper from the lab published in JPSP, showing that humility is comprised of two facets–one pro-social and “other-appreciating”, and the other anti-social and “self-abasing.” Read the paper here.
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Great review of Take Pride in NY Mag; book comes out this week!
Jess’ new book Take Pride reviewed in NY Mag. The book comes out this week, on Sept. 20th! Order Your Copy Now »
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Read more »Joey JEP: Gen paper in press
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,…
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Read more »Jeff’s new baby
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.
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Read more »Aaron SPSP 2016 talk
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.
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Read more »Current Opinion
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.
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Read more »Jess ICPS talk online
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.
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Read more »Jess UT talk
Jess Tracy, From Pride to Social Rank Social/Personality Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. March 27, 2018 Toronto, ON
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Read more »JP pride-o-meter paper
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.
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Read more »Edge Annual Question 2015
Read Jess and Kristin Laurin’s answer to the Edge.com Annual Question, “What do you think about machines that think?”