Pride: Feeling good about myself because of you, because of us
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Pride is generally portrayed as an emotion of self-appraisal or as a self-conscious emotion. When feeling pride, one evaluates (and therefore is intentionally directed towards) oneself as commendable in light either of one’s achievements (agential pride) or one’s identity or character traits (non-agential pride). This account adequately captures a large number of emotional episodes, but it notably leaves aside the social dimensions of pride. This chapter offers a view of pride as social in two senses. First, in its more minimal understanding, pride is a social emotion insofar as it reveals that a dimension of ourselves is exposable to and depends on others. Second, in a more specific sense, some instances of pride can be ‘hetero-induced’. Hetero-induced pride is pride that is elicited by significant others, and more specifically, by those others whom we perceive as members of the same group to which we also belong. The aim of this chapter is to map the terrain of current research about pride while putting particular attention on the way in which sociality impacts pride.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life : Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Explorations |
Editors | Michael Hviid Jacobsen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 15 Aug 2022 |
Pages | 30-44 |
Chapter | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781032073385 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003208556 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Aug 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 selection and editorial matter, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Faculty of Humanities - pride, self-conscious emotions, group-identification, group-based emotions, Phenomenology, philosophy of emotion, moral psychology
Research areas
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