Hubris, she says, is pride that has been falsely assumed without merit in order to drive away an inner sense of insecurity. The side of pride to watch out for: when it leads to hubris-meaning, meaning self-aggrandizement at the expense of others. The Dark Side of Prideīut still, some of us have the fear of becoming "too proud"-or, we know someone who has that holier-than-thou sense of pride. 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 “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 seen in our social groups and with ourselves. Pride makes us feel good, and it’s an indication to ourselves that we are behaving in a way congruent with our values, says Tracy. She argues that pride, like other human emotions, is part of our evolutionary heritage, helping us to survive and thrive in cooperative societies by inspiring us to be the best humans we can be. It’s even been called the “deadliest sin.”īut is it? Not according to psychologist Jessica Tracy, author of the new book Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. Pride is often considered a negative force in human existence-the opposite of humility and a source of social friction.
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