Arrogant or self-confident? The use of contextual knowledge to differentiate hubristic and authentic pride from a single nonverbal expression

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-24

  Tracy, Jessica L ^a   Prehn, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authentic pride; Causal attributions; Context; Emotion recognition; Hubristic pride

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTHENTIC PRIDE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUBRISTIC PRIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858246314     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2011.561298     Document Type: Article

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