In the Emotion and Self Lab at the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, we study the evolutionary function, nonverbal expression, and psychological structure of emotions and self.
Mercadante, E. J., Weidman, A. C., & Tracy, J. L.
Perspectives in Psychological Science
Tracy, J. L., Hohm, I., & Ibasco, G. C..
In U. Hess, S. Hareli, & K. Kafetsios (Eds.), Research Handbook on Culture and Emotion. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
In research led by Zak Witkower, smile variation is shown to accurately leak personality. See here for the article in press at PNAS-Nexus.
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...
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.
Jess was recently featured in an article published by the Globe and Mail where she outlines the utility of and differences between envy and jealousy. This article discusses the mechanisms behind social comparison as we move into a post-pandemic era, and whether envy and jealousy are helpful or detrimental to society.
Click the link to learn more about these emotions in the context of a pandemic!
Jess, Eric, and Zak published a new blog post in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Character and Context Blog. In this post, they discuss the relationship between pride and social rank and their research investigating the causal direction of this association.
Check the post out in the link below!
Check out Jess’ feature on the second episode The Feelings Lab podcast, where she discusses the feeling of embarrassment alongside Dr. Alan Cowen, Dr. Dacher Keltner, Matt Forte, and Ali Kolbert!
A Facial-Action Imposter: How Head Tilt Infers Perception of Dominance From a Neutral Face
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