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Publications: Social Status
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Laurin, K., Engstrom, H. R., Alic, A., & Tracy, J. L. (in press).
Is being elite the same as living an easy life? Two distinct ways of experiencing subjective SES.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Witkower, Z., Hill, A. K., Koster, J., Pun, A., & Baron, A., & Tracy, J. L. (2024).
Nonverbal displays of dominance and prestige: Evidence for cross-cultural and early emerging recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 282-292.
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Tracy, J. L., Mercadante, E. J., & Hohm, I. (2023).
Pride: The emotional foundation of social rank attainment.
Annual Review of Psychology, 74, 519-545.
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Mercadante, E. J., & Tracy, J. L. (2022).
A paradox of pride: Hubristic pride predicts strategic dishonesty after status threats.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 1681-1706.
Download PDFWitkower, Z., Hill, A. K., Koster, J., & Tracy, J. L. (2022).
Is a downwards head tilt a cross-cultural signal of dominance? Evidence for a universal visual illusion.
Scientific Reports, 12, 1-7.
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Witkower, Z., Mercadante, E., & Tracy, J. L. (2021).
The chicken and egg of pride and social rank.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 382-289..
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Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies [Comment on Durkee, Lukaszewski, and Buss].
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, No. 22 e2103870118..
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2020 »
Witkower, Z., Mercadante, E., & Tracy, J. L. (2020).
How affect shapes status: Distinct emotional experiences and expressions facilitate social hierarchy navigation.
Current Opinion in Psychology
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Mercadante, E. J., Witkower, Z., & Cheng, J. T. (2020).
The evolution of pride and social hierarchy.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 51-114.
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Why social status is essential (but sometimes insufficient) for leadership.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 261-263 [commentary].
Download PDFWitkower, Z., Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., & Henrich, J. (2020).
Two signals of social rank: Prestige and dominance are associated with distinct nonverbal displays.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 89-121.
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Witkower, Z. & Tracy, J. L. (2019).
“Head-ing” towards a new understanding of face perception.
Character and Context (SPSP Media Newsletter, August 13, 2019).
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2018 »
Tracy, J. L., Steckler, C., Randles, D., & Mercadante, E. (2018).
The financial cost of status signaling: Expansive postural displays are associated with a reduction in the receipt of altruistic donations.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 520-528.
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Tracy, J. L. (2016).
Outrageousness is Trump's trump card.
USA Today
Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Ho, S., & Henrich, J. (2016).
Listen, follow me: Dynamics vocal signals of dominance predict emergent social rank in humans.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 536-547.
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Tracy, J. L., Weidman, A. C., Cheng, J. T., & Martens, J. P. (2014).
Pride: The fundamental emotion of success, power, and status.
In Tugade, Shiota, & Kirby (Eds.), Handbook of positive emotion (pp. 294-310). New York: Guildford Press.
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The assessment of social status: A review of measures and experimental manipulations
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 347-362). New York: Springer.
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The Emotional Underpinnings of Social Status
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 201-224). New York: Springer.
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Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank.
In Cheng, Tracy, & Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status (pp. 3-27). New York: Springer.
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Tracy, J. L. (2013).
Pride: It brings out the best--and worst--in humans.
Scientific American Mind
Martens, J. P., & Tracy, J. L.. (2013).
The emotional origins of a social learning bias: Does the pride expression cue copying?
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 492-499.
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Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 103–125.
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The impact of wealth on prestige and dominance rank relationships.
Psychological Inquiry, 24, 102-108.
Download PDFTracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., Zhao, W., & Henrich, J. (2013).
Cross-Cultural Evidence that the Nonverbal Expression of Pride is an Automatic Status Signal
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 163-180.
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Martens, J. P., Tracy, J. L., & Shariff, A. F. (2012).
Status signals: Adaptive benefits of displaying and observing the nonverbal expressions of pride and shame.
Cognition and Emotion, 26, 390-406.
Download PDFShariff, A. F., Tracy, J. L., & Markusoff, J. (2012).
(Implicitly) Judging a Book By Its Cover: The Power of Pride and Shame Expressions in Shaping Judgments of Social Status
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1178-1193.
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