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The self and others in the experience of pride
van Osch,Y.M.J. Zeelenberg,M. Breugelmans,S.M.
van Osch,Y.M.J.
Zeelenberg,M.
Breugelmans,S.M.
Abstract
Pride is seen as both a self-conscious emotion as well as a social emotion. These categories are not mutually exclusive, but have brought forth different ideas about pride as either revolving around the self or as revolving around one’s relationship with others. Current measures of pride do not include intrapersonal elements of pride experiences. Social comparisons, which often cause experiences of pride, contain three elements: the self, the relationship between the self and another person, and the other person. From the literature on pride, we distilled three related elements; perceptions and feelings of self-inflation, other-distancing, and other-devaluation. In four studies, we explored whether these elements were present in pride experiences. We did so at an implicit (Experiment 1; N = 218) and explicit level (Experiment 2; N = 125), in an academic setting with in vivo (Experiment 3; N = 203) and imagined pride experiences (Experiment 4; N = 126). The data consistently revealed that the experience of pride is characterised by self-inflation, not by other-distancing nor other-devaluation.
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2018
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APPRAISAL, DISPLAYS, EMOTION, EXPRESSION, GUILT, HEIGHT, PERCEPTIONS, Pride, SHAME, THEORETICAL-MODEL, UNITED-STATES, authentic pride, emotion experience, phenomenology, self-inflation, social comparison
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van Osch, Y M J, Zeelenberg, M & Breugelmans, S M 2018, 'The self and others in the experience of pride', Cognition & Emotion, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 404-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1290586