Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride

Pride 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 evaluatethe theory that pride evolved to guide decisions relevant to pursuing actions that enhance v...

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Main Authors: SZNYCER, Daniel, AL-SHAWAF, Laith, BEREBY-MEYER, Yoella, CURRY, Oliver Scott, DE SMET, Delphine, ERMER, Elsa, KIM, Sangin, KIM, Sunhwa, LI, Norman P., SEAL, Maria Florencia Lopez, MCCLUNG, Jennifer, O, Jiaqing, OHTSUBO, Yohsuke, QUILLIEN, Tadeg, SCHAUB, Max, SELL, Aaron, LEEUWEN, Florian van, COSMIDE, Leda, TOOBY, John
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-37042019-10-21T13:46:50Z Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride SZNYCER, Daniel AL-SHAWAF, Laith BEREBY-MEYER, Yoella CURRY, Oliver Scott DE SMET, Delphine ERMER, Elsa KIM, Sangin KIM, Sunhwa LI, Norman P. SEAL, Maria Florencia Lopez MCCLUNG, Jennifer O, Jiaqing OHTSUBO, Yohsuke QUILLIEN, Tadeg SCHAUB, Max SELL, Aaron LEEUWEN, Florian van COSMIDE, Leda TOOBY, John Pride 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 evaluatethe 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. 2016-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2447 info:doi/10.1073/pnas.1614389114 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3704/viewcontent/1874.full.pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3704/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/pnas.1614389114.sapp.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Pride valuation decision-making emotion culture Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology
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topic Pride
valuation
decision-making
emotion
culture
Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
spellingShingle Pride
valuation
decision-making
emotion
culture
Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
SZNYCER, Daniel
AL-SHAWAF, Laith
BEREBY-MEYER, Yoella
CURRY, Oliver Scott
DE SMET, Delphine
ERMER, Elsa
KIM, Sangin
KIM, Sunhwa
LI, Norman P.
SEAL, Maria Florencia Lopez
MCCLUNG, Jennifer
O, Jiaqing
OHTSUBO, Yohsuke
QUILLIEN, Tadeg
SCHAUB, Max
SELL, Aaron
LEEUWEN, Florian van
COSMIDE, Leda
TOOBY, John
Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
description Pride 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 evaluatethe 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.
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author SZNYCER, Daniel
AL-SHAWAF, Laith
BEREBY-MEYER, Yoella
CURRY, Oliver Scott
DE SMET, Delphine
ERMER, Elsa
KIM, Sangin
KIM, Sunhwa
LI, Norman P.
SEAL, Maria Florencia Lopez
MCCLUNG, Jennifer
O, Jiaqing
OHTSUBO, Yohsuke
QUILLIEN, Tadeg
SCHAUB, Max
SELL, Aaron
LEEUWEN, Florian van
COSMIDE, Leda
TOOBY, John
author_facet SZNYCER, Daniel
AL-SHAWAF, Laith
BEREBY-MEYER, Yoella
CURRY, Oliver Scott
DE SMET, Delphine
ERMER, Elsa
KIM, Sangin
KIM, Sunhwa
LI, Norman P.
SEAL, Maria Florencia Lopez
MCCLUNG, Jennifer
O, Jiaqing
OHTSUBO, Yohsuke
QUILLIEN, Tadeg
SCHAUB, Max
SELL, Aaron
LEEUWEN, Florian van
COSMIDE, Leda
TOOBY, John
author_sort SZNYCER, Daniel
title Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
title_short Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
title_full Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
title_fullStr Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
title_full_unstemmed Cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
title_sort cross cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2016
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2447
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