Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
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Significance: Cross-cultural tests from 16 nations were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that the emotion of pride evolved to guide behavior to elicit valuation and respect from others. Ancestrally, enhanced evaluations would have led to increased assistance and deference from others. To incline choice, the pride system must compute for a potential action an anticipated pride intensity that tracks the magnitude of the approval or respect that the action would generate in the local audience. All tests demonstrated that pride intensities measured in each location closely track the magnitudes of others’ positive evaluations. Moreover, different cultures echo each other both in what causes pride and in what elicits positive evaluations, suggesting that the underlying valuation systems are universal.
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Even building blocks of socially complex emotions such as pride are culturally universal.
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- Authors
- Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Bilkent University (TR)
- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law, and Business Law, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium;
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Gongneung Welfare Center, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01851, Republic of Korea;
- Singapore Management University (SG)
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Cordoba, Argentina;
- University of Neuchâtel (CH)
- School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903;
- Kobe University (JP)
- European University Institute (IT)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark;
- Corresponding author
- Sznycer, Daniel
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2017-02-06
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1874-1879
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5338381
- OpenAlex
- W2587238294
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 46 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 11.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University) (submittedVersion)
- Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University) (submittedVersion)
- Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- John Templeton Foundation (29468, 29165)
- HHS | National Institutes of Health (Director's Pioneer Award)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26590132)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- pride, cross-cultural universality, evolution of emotions, social evaluation, social respect, cognitive architecture, social approval, cultural variation in emotion
- MeSH terms
- Choice Behavior, Cognition, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Social Behavior
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