APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Are Pride and Shame Dissociable Components of a Culturally Universal Status Management System?
- Patrick Durkee
University of Texas at Austin - Aaron Lukaszewski
California State University, Fullerton - David Buss
University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Using data from 14 nations (N = 2,751), we extend recent adaptationist theories about the emotions “pride” and “shame” to the domain of hierarchical status and test the novel, multi-part hypothesis that pride and shame are dissociable components of a culturally universal status-management system.
Emotion