Take Pride, Jessica Tracy
Take Pride, Jessica Tracy
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Take Pride
Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success

Author: Jessica Tracy

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

A leading psychologist reveals how our most misunderstood emotion—pride—has shaped our minds and our culture, and shows how we can harness its power.Why did Paul Gauguin abandon middle-class life to follow the path of a starving artist? What inspired Bill Gates to give away so much of his hard-won fortune? How has Donald Trump succeeded so excessively, when his winning style could easily be his greatest liability?As the renowned emotion researcher Jessica Tracy reveals in Take Pride, each of these superachievers has been motivated by an often maligned emotion: pride. Its dark, hubristic side is well known, but Tracy shows that pride is also essential for helping us become our best, brightest selves. By making us care about how others see us and how we see ourselves, pride makes us strive for excellence. In the right doses and the right contexts, it has been proven to boost creativity, motivate altruism, and confer status and power on those who display it. In Take Pride, Tracy explains why we came to feel pride and how we can make this double-edged emotion serve us—rather than the other way around.

About Jessica Tracy

Jessica Tracy is associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she also directs the Emotion & Self Lab. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 2005. Her research focuses on emotions and emotion expressions, and, in particular, those emotions that are most intricately intertwined with our sense of self: pride, shame, and guilt. She has coedited two academic volumes, The Self-Conscious Emotions and The Psychology of Social Status, and has published over eighty journal articles, book chapters, and theoretical reviews in psychology and interdisciplinary science journals. Winner of the James McKeen Cattell Dissertation Award from the New York Academy of Sciences and of the International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award, she has had her research findings covered by hundreds of media outlets, including ABC's Good Morning America, NPR's All Things Considered, the New York Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. Tracy was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Vancouver with her daughter, her partner, and their small dog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 26, 2016

Jessica Tracy’s TAKE PRIDE: WHY THE DEADLILEST SIN HOLDS THE SECRET TO HUMAN SUCCESS (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) is a well-written, very interesting, and often humorous look at that mysterious aspect of our personality, pride. What is pride? How and why did human beings develop pride?......more

Goodreads review by Humberto on July 18, 2018

Take Pride, Jessica Tracy, 2016. Las ideas que obtuve de este libro fueron: - El orgullo es un sentimiento que nos impulsa a salir de un estado actual de cosas que juzgamos como insuficiente, no digno del concepto que tenemos de nosotros mismos. - El orgullo es una emoción con efectos positivos, a s......more

Goodreads review by caramellatte on October 23, 2024

chose this book for my psych class. did so many fact-checks (by checking the primary articles) and still need to do a long book report and a presentation about it. and i can say that she for sure leaves a lot of limitations out from the conducted studies and doesn't mention anything that contradicts......more

Goodreads review by Heather on February 10, 2025

This was an exceptional book on emotional intelligence, strongly backed by research and logic. Very similar to How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett, just more particularly focused on the emotion of pride itself. If you've ever wondered how pride gets both strong negative and positive social......more

Goodreads review by José on May 01, 2025

Un libro excepcional La autora te lleva en cada capitulo a cada descubrimiento que hay en esta emoción del orgullo, respondiendo a preguntas bastante intrigantes en relación a esta emoción. Entender cómo los seres humanos hemos evolucionado para sentir y expresar orgullo es simplemente fascinante. Re......more

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