Show Your Pride: Evidence for a Discrete Emotion Expression

Three experiments provide converging evidence that pride has a distinct, recognizable expression. Experiment 1 showed that judges can agree in identifying a posed expression as showing pride and can reliably distinguish pride expressions from expressions of related emotions such as happiness. Experi...

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Published in:Psychological science 2004-03, Vol.15 (3), p.194-197
Main Authors: Tracy, Jessica L., Robins, Richard W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Arm
Behavior
Emotion
Emotional expression
Emotions
Experiments
Facial Expression
Facial expressions
Female
Happiness
Head
Humans
Male
Non-verbal communication
Nonverbal communication
Posture
Pride
Psychology
Research Reports
Smiles
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Summary:Three experiments provide converging evidence that pride has a distinct, recognizable expression. Experiment 1 showed that judges can agree in identifying a posed expression as showing pride and can reliably distinguish pride expressions from expressions of related emotions such as happiness. Experiment 2 showed that judges can identify the pride expression when the task uses an open-ended response format that does not cue them with the label "pride." Experiment 3 showed that the pride expression includes a small smile, with head tilted slightly back, visibly expanded posture, and arms raised above the head or hands on hips. Overall, these findings challenge the assumption that all positive emotions share the same expression, and suggest that pride may be added to the pantheon of basic emotions generally viewed as evolved responses.
ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.01503008.x