Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride.

ABSTRACT: Pride occurs in every known culture, appears early in development, is reliably triggered by achievements and formidability, and causes a characteristic display that is recognized everywhere. Here, we evaluate the theory that pride evolved to guide decisions relevant to pursuing actions that enhance valuation and respect for a person in the minds of others. By hypothesis, pride is a neurocomputational program tailored by selection to orchestrate cognition and behavior in the service of: (i) motivating the cost-effective pursuit of courses of action that would increase others' valuations and respect of the individual, (ii) motivating the advertisement of acts or characteristics whose recognition by others would lead them to enhance their evaluations of the individual, and (i

SUBMITTER: Sznycer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338381 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature