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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.
Download PDFWitkower, Z., Hill, A. K., Koster, J., Pun, A., & Baron, A., & Tracy, J. L. (in press).
Nonverbal displays of dominance and prestige: Evidence for cross-cultural and early emerging recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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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..
Download PDFCheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Henrich, J. (2021).
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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