Pride and Social Status

Running Head: STATUS AND PRIDE Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status

1 2 Based on evolutionary logic, Henrich and Gil-White (2001) distinguished between two 3 routes to attaining social status in human societies: dominance, based on intimidation, and 4 prestige, based on the possession of skills or expertise. Independently, emotion researchers Tracy 5 and Robins (2007) demonstrated two distinct forms of pride: hubristic and authentic. Bridging 6 these two lines ...

Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status

Based on evolutionary logic, Henrich and Gil-White [Evolution and Human Behavior, 22(3), 165–196] distinguished between two routes to attaining social status in human societies: dominance, based on intimidation, and prestige, based on the possession of skills or expertise. Independently, emotion researchers Tracy and Robins [Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(3), 506–525] demonstr...

Running Head: STATUS AND PRIDE Leading with Pride: Do Hubristic and Authentic Pride Underlie the Attainment of Dominance and Prestige?

Pride and Diversity in Social Economics

We study a two-period economy in which agents’preferences take into account relative economic position. The study builds on a decision theoretic analysis of the social emotions that underly these concerns, i.e., envy and pride, which respond to social losses and gains, respectively. The analysis allows individual di¤erences in their relative importance and, in the tradition of Prospect Theory, ...

Compassion, pride, and social intuitions of self-other similarity.

Compassion and pride serve contrasting social functions: Compassion motivates care-taking behavior, whereas pride enables the signaling and negotiation of rank within social hierarchies. Across 3 studies, compassion was associated with increased perceived self-other similarity, particularly to weak or vulnerable others. In contrast, pride was associated with an enhanced sense of similarity to s...