“The pride that narcissists experience-a pride that’s best summed up with words like arrogance, conceit, and, in Italy, orgoglio-is not about feeling good it’s about avoiding feeling bad,” writes Tracy. Those with hubris are more vulnerable to shame, and “tend to have fraught relationships and few close friends.” If individuals inflate their importance, take credit for others’ achievements, bully others, or act hostilely and aggressively toward anyone who questions them, it’s a sign that pride has turned to hubris and is hiding a wounded narcissistic personality, she says. Hubris, she says, is pride that has been falsely assumed without merit in order to drive away an inner sense of insecurity. It has a dark side, too, when it leads to hubris-meaning, self-aggrandizement at the expense of others. Learn whether patriotism and national pride are compatible with compassion.Įxplore the links beween white pride and prejudice.ĭiscover how humility will make you the greatest person ever.īut that doesn’t mean that pride is all for the good, Tracy says. Understand the power paradox: the dynamics of how we gain and lose power and influence. And pride attracts mates, which is how it has been selected for in humans as well as animals throughout evolution. Therefore, pride helps to drive cultural learning, because it helps us figure out who can teach us about our world. Later, those students voluntarily worked on an unrelated problem set twice as long as the students who were not induced to feel pride for the same scores, suggesting that pride motivated them to persevere.Īccording to Tracy, children and adults will seek knowledge from people who show pride displays, because proud people are assumed to have expertise underlying their pride.
In one study, participants were experimentally induced to feel pride by being told that their scores on a rather boring cognitive test were especially high. She recounts results from several research studies to help demonstrate the ways pride impacts us behaviorally and socially. Tracy argues that those who regularly experience pride tend to be “outgoing and friendly, agreeable, calm and anxiety-free, creative, and popular,” and “are generally communally oriented, meaning they place a high value on their relationships and friendships.” In this way, having pride can lead us to feel competent and accepted in our social groups. “It makes us want to feel good about ourselves and make sure others look up to us, admire us, and see us as competent and powerful.” “Pride makes us care about how others see us and-just as important-how we see ourselves,” she writes.
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