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...

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 ...

Patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) often experience dysfunction in their ability to efficiently carry out everyday roles and/or skills. These deficits are seen across many domains of daily functioning. We suggest that the "self-conscious emotions" of pride and shame play a role in these functional outcomes. Pride and shame appear to facilitate individuals׳ ability to evaluate their gro...

This study examined neural activation during the experience of compassion, an emotion that orients people toward vulnerable others and prompts caregiving, and pride, a self-focused emotion that signals individual strength and heightened status. Functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) were acquired as participants viewed 55 s continuous sequences of slides to induce either compassion or prid...

The authentic/hubristic (A/H) model of pride has been empirically supported by dozens of studies drawing on thousands of participants. The model involves four distinct components, most central of which is the finding that pride is not a unitary construct but rather is comprised of two distinct facets, referred to as authentic and hubristic pride. In the present article, we review the four criti...

Abstract A reprint from a 2018 issue of the Journal West Indian Literature devoted to Marlon James, this essay engages two writer's novels, John Crow's Devil and The Book Night Women, under rubric Gothic. By shifting focus violence James's novels generic elements engages, argues that engagement with Gothic better accounts for these novels’ attention issues excessive violence, doubling, feminine...