Information Overload (or maybe I’m just a slow reader)
The Decade of Navel Gazing (2010–???) took another step toward cementing its legacy this week with the publication of Nosek and Bar-Anan’s proposal for Scientific Utopia. The authors present a six-step...
View ArticleNarratives of redemption predict recovery
New research from Will Dunlop and Jess Tracy suggests that newly sober alcoholics who talk about their last drink in redemptive terms are over 40% more likely to stay sober, months later, than those...
View ArticleWhat “Emotions” Have Been (for Two Millenia)
What is an emotion? We’ve all read about how this question has puzzled psychologists for over a century, notably since the publication of William James’ famous article of the same name. The same...
View ArticleClinical Psych Science paper in press
Nonverbal displays of shame predict relapse and worsened health, months later, among recovering alcoholics. Read the paper by Dan Randles and Jess Tracy, now in press at Clinical Psych Science. Read...
View ArticleJoey’s Nonverbal Behavior Pre-Con talk
Joey Cheng, “Listen, Follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence” SPSP Pre-Conference on Nonverbal Behavior Data Blitz, New Orleans, LA January 17, 2012
View ArticleRed cues fertility
New research by Alec Beall and Jess Tracy shows that women are more likely to dress in red when they are at peak fertility– first evidence for an observable behavioral display that cues ovulation. Read...
View ArticleJess APS talk
Jess Tracy, “The Irrepressible Communicative Power of the Emotion Expressions of Pride and Shame” In the symposium,“Face it! Context reveals what the face conceals” (H. Aviezer, Chair), at the annual...
View ArticleJoey APS talk
Joey Cheng, “Listen, follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence.” In the symposium,“Psychophysical cues to fertility, leadership capacity, trustworthiness, and health” (J.T. Cheng,...
View ArticleJoey ARP Talk
Joey Cheng, “Listen, follow me: Changes in vocal pitch predict leader emergence.” In the symposium,“Causes and consequences of individual differences in social status: New insights from research on...
View ArticleJess Peter Wall Roundtable Talk
Jess Tracy, “A Basic Psychological Approach to Understanding Emotion”. A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect Across Disciplines. Peter Wall International Roundtable. May 4, 2013 UBC
View ArticleAlec APS talk
Alec Beall, “The Little Red Dress Spells Reproductive Success.” In the symposium,“Psychophysical cues to fertility, leadership capacity, trustworthiness, and health” (J.T. Cheng, & J.L. Tracy,...
View ArticleAaron ISRE talk
Aaron Weidman, “The Jingle and Jangle of Emotion Assessment: Imprecise Measurement, Casual Scale Usage, and Conceptual Fuzziness in Discrete Emotion Research.” At the biennial meeting of the...
View ArticleARP 2013
The Emotion & Self Lab descended on Charlotte, NC, US of A, last weekend for the 3rd Biannual Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality. Our contingent included Jess, Joey, Aaron, and...
View ArticleNarcissism and vulnerability
Joey Cheng, Jess Tracy, and Greg Miller show that narcissists reveal physiological fragility (i.e., higher levels of two biomarkers of stress) in the face of daily distresses, consistent with the...
View ArticleToo Good Does Not Always Mean Not True
By Jessica Tracy & Alec Beall While we agree several of Andrew Gelman’s broad concerns about current research practices in social psychology (see “Too Good to Be True”), much of what he said...
View ArticleJess APS 2014 talk
Jess Tracy, `The Nature of Pride“ Invited Talk. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. May, 2014
View ArticleDan spsp data blitz 2013
Dan Randles, “Shamed into taking a drink? Shame displays predict likelihood of relapse among recovering alcoholics”. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention Data Blitz, Austin,...
View ArticleJess SAS Talk
Jess Tracy, “The Social Functions of Pride” Society for Affective Science Inaugural Conference. Washington DC, April 2014
View ArticleJess Stanford social talk
Jess Tracy, “The Nature of Pride” Stanford University Social Psychology Colloquium Series. Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 10, 2014
View ArticleScientific American Mind
Now out in Scientific American Mind: Jess’ article “Pride brings out the best–and the worst–in humans.“
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