Jessica L. Tracy is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a social-personality psychologist and emotion researcher whose work is primarily focused on emotions, the self, nonverbal expressions of emotion, and the self-conscious emotions of pride and shame.
Early Life and Educational Background
Tracy was born on February 15, 1974, in Washington, DC. She earned her B.A. (magna cum laude) from Amherst College in 1996. Her undergraduate honors thesis was on Jungian theory and personality; she tested whether individuals whose dreams reflected Jungian content tend to be high in creativity. After graduating, Tracy moved to San Francisco, CA, and spent several years working outside of academia, primarily as an editor and freelance writer. She began graduate school in social-personality psychology at the University of California, Davis, in 1999, and received her Ph.D. in 2005 under the supervision of Richard W. Robins.
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Ashton-James, C. E., & Tracy, J. L. (2012). Pride and prejudice: Feelings about the self influence judgments of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 466–476.
Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Henrich, J. (2010). Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 334–347.
Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Foulsham, T., Kingstone, A., & Henrich, J. (2013). Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 103–125.
Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Anderson, C. (2014). The psychology of social status. New York: Springer.
Shariff, A. F., & Tracy, J. L. (2009). Knowing who’s boss: Implicit perceptions of status from the nonverbal expression of pride. Emotion, 9, 631–639.
Shariff, A. F., & Tracy, J. L. (2011). What are emotion expressions for? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 395–399.
Shariff, A. F., Tracy, J. L., & Markusoff, J. (2012). (Implicitly) judging a book by its cover: The power of pride and shame expressions in shaping judgments of social status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1178–1193.
Tracy, J. L. (2014). An evolutionary approach to understanding distinct emotions. Emotion Review, 6, 308–312.
Tracy, J. (2016). Take pride: Why the deadliest sin holds the secret to human success. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Tracy, J. L., & Matsumoto, D. (2008). The spontaneous expression of pride and shame: Evidence for biologically innate nonverbal displays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 11655–11660.
Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Show your pride: Evidence for a discrete emotion expression. Psychological Science, 15, 194–197.
Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007a). The prototypical pride expression: Development of a nonverbal behavioral coding system. Emotion, 7, 789–801.
Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007b). The psychological structure of pride: A tale of two facets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 506–525.
Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2008). The nonverbal expression of pride: Evidence for cross-cultural recognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 516–530.
Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). Can children recognize pride? Emotion, 5, 251–257.
Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Tangney, J. P. (2007). The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research. New York: Guilford.
Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., Robins, R. W., & Trzesniewski, K. (2009). Authentic and hubristic pride: The affective core of self-esteem and narcissism. Self and Identity, 8, 196–213.
Tracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., & Cheng, J. T. (2010). A naturalist’s view of pride. Emotion Review, 2, 163–177.
Tracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., Zhao, W., & Henrich, J. (2013). Cross-cultural evidence that the pride expression is a universal automatic status signal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 163–180.
Weidman, A. C., Tracy, J. L., & Elliot, A. J. (2016). The benefits of following your pride: Authentic pride promotes achievement. Journal of Personality, 84, 607–622.
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Tracy, J.L. (2017). Tracy, Jessica L.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1027-1
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