Jessica Tracy || Shades of Pride

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“What is it in the human psyche that allows us to achieve, create, discover, and invent in ways that no other species can?” This is a question Jessica Tracy explores in her book Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. Tracy is a professor of psychology, an emotion researcher, and a social-personality psychologist at the University of British Columbia. In our conversation we discuss the established and emerging research on: The 2 distinct expressions of pride (hubristic and authentic), and how they relate to the routes to power (dominance and prestige), The experience and expressions of shame, and how the emotion has made its way into the research on everything from narcissism to addiction, The moral and self-conscious emotions, and the roles they play in decision making. Thanks to Jessica for coming on the podcast and discussing these fascinating and important lines of research! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.0	welcome to the psychology podcast where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:06.0	Each episode will feature a guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater
0:10.7	understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:13.8	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.4	If you like what you hear today, please add a rating and review on iTunes.
0:21.0	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast.
0:33.0	Jessica is a professor of
0:44.8	psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the
0:49.0	self-conscious emotions of pride, shame, guilt, and embarrassment.
0:53.2	In addition to numerous scientific papers,
0:54.9	she is author of the recent book Take Pride,
0:57.4	Why The Deadliest Sin holds the secret to human success.
1:00.6	Thanks for chatting with me today, Jessica. Yeah, no problem, happy, happy to do it.
1:05.0	So I'm a long time admirer of your research and it's really innovative and builds important ways off of Darwin's work on emotions, right?
1:16.2	And the kind of emotions he noticed.
1:18.4	Yeah, no, absolutely.
1:19.8	I think that was definitely the inspiration for a lot of what I've done is to sort of say, okay, well Darwin suggested this and Darwin's work was largely theoretical. He made observations and he had observations from other people he connected with, but really, Paul Ekman was sort of the researcher scientist
1:35.6	who actually took Darwin's ideas and tested them
1:38.2	in a way that was just incredibly thorough and groundbreaking.
1:40.6	And so I'd say my work most closely builds off what Ekman did but both of us are drawing on ideas from Darwin for sure.
1:46.7	Yeah, so Ekman he first identified six emotions was it? How more were there? How many basic? Five. Yeah so he first
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