Emotions Of Pride Research Articles

Pride in Parsimony

Tracy, Shariff, and Cheng (2010) present a timely and eloquent review of the current research on the emotion pride in terms of a naturalist framework. The present commentary not only echoes arguments relating to pride’s adaptive function, but also highlights some points of theoretical clarification. Specifically, we question the necessity of the naturalist approach and the emphasis on two facets of pride.

‘Talking Shit over a Brew after a Good Session with your Mates’: surfing, space and masculinity

In this paper we critically engage with the masculinities of a group of young men who surf shortboards by investigating their love of surfing at breaks they have made their own. The aim of our paper is to reveal the fluid qualities of surfing masculinities by examining how surfing subjectivities are bound up with the spatial, discursive and the embodied. Becoming a ‘local’, and a man, at surf-breaks requires this group sharing the pleasures and pain of producing themselves as surfers. We demonstrate how emotions of pride and shame within the bonds of mateship play a crucial role in maintaining the culturally valued form of masculinity. We conclude how thinking spatially is helpful in underscoring the variability found in surfing masculinities at different breaks and conditions.

Pride and perseverance: The motivational role of pride.

Perseverance toward goals that carry short-term costs is an important component of adaptive functioning. The present experiments examine the role that the emotion pride may play in mediating such perseverance. Across 2 studies, pride led to greater perseverance on an effortful and hedonically negative task believed to be related to the initial source of pride. In addition, the causal efficacy of pride was further demonstrated through dissociating its effects from related alternative mechanisms. Study 1 differentiated the effects of pride from self-efficacy. Study 2 differentiated the effects of pride from general positive affect. Taken together, these findings provide support for the proposed motivational function of pride in which this emotion serves as an incentive to persevere on a task despite initial costs.

Positive emotions, spirituality and the practice of psychiatry.

This paper proposes that eight positive emotions: awe, love (attachment), trust (faith), compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy and hope constitute what we mean by spirituality. These emotions have been grossly ignored by psychiatry. The two sciences that I shall employ to demonstrate this definition of spirituality will be ethology and neuroscience. They are both very new. I will argue that spirituality is not about ideas, sacred texts and theology; rather, spirituality is all about emotion and social connection.Specific religions, for all their limitations, are often the portal through which positive emotions are brought into conscious attention. Neither Freud nor psychiatric textbooks ever mention emotions like joy and gratitude. Hymns and psalms give these emotions pride of place. Our whole concept of psychotherapy might change if clinicians set about enhancing positive emotions rather than focusing only on negative emotions.

Fissures in the rock: rethinking pride and shame in the moral terrains of Uluru

Joint management strategies of national parks are extending the pedagogical arm of reconciliation. We explore how this process is operating in Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. Through our concept of moral terrains, we examine whether the embodied knowledge derived from travelling, witnessing, climbing, walking, touching and being touched by Uluru opens moral gateways between indigenous and non‐indigenous people. Our argument relies upon ethnographic materials derived from semi‐structured interviews conducted around photographs taken by recently returned non‐indigenous metropolitan Australians. Our results explore how moral gateways are either opened or closed through the emotions of pride and shame.

Psychological responses to exercising in laboratory and natural environments

Objectives To monitor possible changes in emotions and stress pre- to post-exercise and directly compare the psychological effects of exercising in laboratory and natural exercise environments. Design In each of two within-subjects experiments, a two-period crossover design was used where the order in which runners participated in the laboratory and natural running environments was counter-balanced to control for order effects. Method Two groups of male recreational ( N=22) and competitive runners ( N=22) were participants in two separate exercise experiments. Each group ran 5 km (a) indoors on a laboratory treadmill and (b) outdoors in a natural environment. Ratings of affect were measured pre- and 10 min post-exercise. Results Statistical analysis revealed significant increases in positive, and decreases in negative emotions pre- to post-exercise, irrespective of running condition, and higher pride with natural than laboratory running, were found for the recreational group. For competitive runners, excitement increased, and anxiety decreased pre- to post-exercise irrespective of running condition. Tension and effort stress scores were significantly higher with natural running than laboratory running. Conclusions Concerns about the impact of running environments on changes in emotion with running may be overstated as only one significant difference, for the individual emotion pride, between laboratory and natural exercise environments was obtained in the two experiments.

Entrepreneurship and ‘the social’: Towards a deference-emotion theory

This article offers an alternative to the dominant individualistic theories of entrepreneurship. It develops Scheff’s notion of the deference-emotion system to propose a theory of entrepreneurial conduct that emphasizes social interaction and emotion. This theory proposes that the emotions of pride and shame, produced by the giving and withholding of deference, can motivate action that resists the innovation-inhibiting effect of social sanctions. By suggesting a social basis for the generation and reproduction of entrepreneurial conduct, it is able to explain the frequently volatile and inconsistent nature of this conduct, an important dimension of entrepreneurial behaviour that, whilst recognized empirically, normally escapes theoretical attention. The article advocates making social situations rather than individuals the analytical starting point for fresh and potentially valuable insights into the nature of entrepreneurial behaviour.

La vie secrète de Salvador Dali: À propos de…« Les passions selon Dali » de Salvador Dali et Louis Pauwels

This paper proposes that eight positive emotions: awe, love/attachment, trust/faith, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy and hope constitute what we mean by spirituality. These emotions have been grossly ignored by psychiatry. The two sciences that I shall employ to demonstrate this definition of spirituality will be ethology and neuroscience. They are both very new. I will argue that spirituality is not about ideas, sacred texts and theology. Rather, spirituality is all about emotion and social connection that are more dependent on the limbic system than the cortex.Specific religions, for all their limitations, are often the portal through which positive emotions are brought into conscious attention. Neither Freud nor psychiatric textbooks ever mention emotions like joy and gratitude. Hymns and psalms give these emotions pride of place. Our whole concept of psychotherapy might change, if clinicians set about enhancing positive emotions, rather than focusing only on the negative ones.

Emotion in social reflection and comparison situations: intuitive, systematic, and exploratory approaches.

We asked 26 subjects to recall and describe social situations in which either a close or a distant other performed better or worse than the self at an activity that was either high or low in relevance to the self. Subjects then rated the extent to which they experienced each of 18 different emotions in each situation. They also rated each situation on a series of dimensions that Smith and Ellsworth (1985) found to be consequential for differentiating emotions. In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness. We discuss the results in terms of their relevance to emotion theories and to the self-evaluation maintenance model of social behavior.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ABDOMINAL SURGEON.Presidential Address delivered before the Tri-State Medical Society.

I take this, the first opportunity since my elevation to the honored position as President of the Tri-State Medical Society, to thank you for the undeserved and unsolicited expression of your confidence and regard. Conflicting emotions of pride and dismay possess me in entering upon the duties of the office. The magnificent program we have presented for your entertainment and instruction, is convincing evidence that within the compass of this organization there are men alive to every recent issue that has created a ripple on the waters of the vast professional sea, and that these contributions, many of which you have enjoyed, attest the thoroughness and excellence of their work. Impressed with our competency to present to the world transactions of the highest order, I feel impelled to take this occasion to urge the immediate necessity of systematizing our work. As a Society and individuals, we are prone to dissipate