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25487
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2906
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177

Overview

Jessica L. Tracy is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, specializing primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields including social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and clinical psychology.

Their work focuses on topics such as cultural differences and values, emotions and moral behavior, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and emotional labor in professions.

Recent publications by Jessica L. Tracy demonstrate a focus on the emotional and social dimensions of human behavior. These include:

  • "How emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory" (2022, Cognition & Emotion)
  • "The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences" (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • "Pride: The Emotional Foundation of Social Rank Attainment" (2023, Annual Review of Psychology)
  • "Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The Chicken and Egg of Pride and Social Rank" (2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science)

Jessica has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Zachary Witkower
  • Eric Mercadante
  • Jeremy Koster
  • Ian Hohm
  • Alexander K. Hill

Their work is published in various academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Emotion
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Cognition & Emotion

Best Publications

  • Putting the self into self-conscious emotions: A theoretical model

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • Global self-esteem across the life span.

    Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski;Jessica L. Tracy;Samuel D. Gosling

  • The psychological structure of pride: a tale of two facets.

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • Two ways to the top: evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence.

    Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

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

    Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Joseph Henrich

  • The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research.

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins;June Price Tangney

  • The spontaneous expression of pride and shame: Evidence for biologically innate nonverbal displays

    Jessica L. Tracy;David Matsumoto

  • Personality Correlates of Self-Esteem

    Richard W. Robins;Jessica L. Tracy;Kali Trzesniewski;Jeff Potter

  • Two Replicable Suppressor Situations in Personality Research.

    Delroy L. Paulhus;Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski;Jessica L. Tracy

  • Appraisal Antecedents of Shame and Guilt: Support for a Theoretical Model

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • Show Your Pride: Evidence for a Discrete Emotion Expression

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • Authentic and Hubristic Pride: The Affective Core of Self-esteem and Narcissism

    Jessica L. Tracy;Joey T. Cheng;Richard W. Robins;Kali H. Trzesniewski

  • Emerging Insights Into the Nature and Function of Pride

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • Self-Compassion: A Potential Resource for Young Women Athletes

    Amber D. Mosewich;Kent C. Kowalski;Catherine M. Sabiston;Whitney A. Sedgwick

  • Four Models of Basic Emotions: A Review of Ekman and Cordaro, Izard, Levenson, and Panksepp and Watt

    Jessica L. Tracy;Daniel Randles

  • Emotional Expression: Advances in Basic Emotion Theory.

    Dacher Keltner;Disa Sauter;Jessica Tracy;Alan Cowen

  • The nonverbal expression of pride: evidence for cross-cultural recognition.

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins

  • A Naturalist’s View of Pride

    Jessica L. Tracy;Azim F. Shariff;Joey T. Cheng

  • What Are Emotion Expressions For

    Azim F. Shariff;Jessica L. Tracy

  • Attachment styles and adolescent sexuality.

    Jessica L. Tracy;Phillip R. Shaver;Austin W. Albino;M. Lynne Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Disa Sauter
Disa Sauter University of Amsterdam
Kali H. Trzesniewski
Kali H. Trzesniewski University of California, Davis
Tom Foulsham
Tom Foulsham University of Essex
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
David C. Funder
David C. Funder University of California, Riverside
Samuel D. Gosling
Samuel D. Gosling The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia

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