Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride

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dc.citation.epage1879en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber8en_US
dc.citation.spage1874en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber114en_US
dc.contributor.authorSznycer, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAl-Shawaf, L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBereby-Meyer, Y.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCurry, O. S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDe Smet, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorErmer, E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKim, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLi, N. P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLopez Seal, M. F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMcClung, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorO, Jiaqingen_US
dc.contributor.authorOhtsubo, Y.en_US
dc.contributor.authorQuillien, T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSchaub, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSell, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorVan Leeuwen, F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCosmides, L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTooby, J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T11:06:13Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T11:06:13Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.description.abstractPride occurs in every known culture, appears early in development, is reliably triggered by achievements and formidability, and causes a characteristic display that is recognized everywhere. Here, we evaluate the theory that pride evolved to guide decisions relevant to pursuing actions that enhance valuation and respect for a person in the minds of others. By hypothesis, pride is a neurocomputational program tailored by selection to orchestrate cognition and behavior in the service of: (i) motivating the costeffective pursuit of courses of action that would increase others' valuations and respect of the individual, (ii) motivating the advertisement of acts or characteristics whose recognition by others would lead them to enhance their evaluations of the individual, and (iii) mobilizing the individual to take advantage of the resulting enhanced social landscape. To modulate how much to invest in actions that might lead to enhanced evaluations by others, the pride system must forecast the magnitude of the evaluations the action would evoke in the audience and calibrate its activation proportionally. We tested this prediction in 16 countries across 4 continents (n = 2,085), for 25 acts and traits. As predicted, the pride intensity for a given act or trait closely tracks the valuations of audiences, local (mean r = +0.82) and foreign (mean r = +0.75). This relationship is specific to pride and does not generalize to other positive emotions that coactivate with pride but lack its audience-recalibrating function.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.1614389114en_US
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/37215
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614389114en_US
dc.source.titleNational Academy of Sciences. Proceedingsen_US
dc.subjectPrideen_US
dc.subjectValuationen_US
dc.subjectDecision-makingen_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.titleCross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of prideen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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