The Different Influences Of Hubristic Pride And Authentic Pride On Evaluation Of Others

Self-conscious emotion is a kind of emotion that involves an increase or decrease of self-consciousness. As a common self-conscious emotion, pride refers to individuals make internal attribution of a successful event that related to oneself. It is the fundamental emotion of individuals make to success, power, and status. Studies found that pride had two sides, is a dual-faceted psychological structure that can be divided into Hubristic pride and Authentic pride. Hubristic pride results from success that is attributed to internal, stable, and uncontrollable causes, whereas authentic pride results from success attributed to internal, unstable, and controllable causes. Evidences from semantic analysis, personality, social behavior, mental health and cognitive appraisal have proved the two-dimensional pride.Studies reported that in social interaction, the common social motivations underlying prejudice and discrimination are feelings about the self (i.e., self-esteem or feelings of self-worth) influence evaluations of stigmatized others. In particular, prejudice and discrimination are most evident in situations where one’s self-image is threatened. In response to threats to the self, individuals evaluate stigmatized others more negatively to achieve a sense of mastery or self-superiority that temporarily allows them to reclaim self-worth and avoid confronting the actual source of the threat. As an emotion experience when individuals make internal attribution of a successful event that related to oneself, pride is in essence a kind of Self-Awareness. Given that hubristic pride is characterized by feelings about the self that are insecurely positive, and research suggests that insecure self-worth promotes prejudice against stigmatized groups, we predict that hubristic pride states will induce negative evaluations of stigmatized others. In contrast, given that authentic pride is characterized by securely positive feelings about the self, and such feelings can help prevent individuals from holding a negative evaluative bias toward stigmatized groups, we predict that authentic pride states will attenuate negative evaluations of stigmatized others.To this end, we designed two experiments to explore whether there is a difference between the evaluations of Hubristic pride and Authentic pride on others. The first experiment uses a imagine task to induce Hubristic pride and Authentic pride, then I study whether subjects in different emotional states have different evaluation of others (including stigma and non stigmatizing groups). In a second experiment, I further explore the how the differences of evaluation of others between Hubristic pride and Authentic pride happen.Finally this study draws the following conclusion:(1) Through the imagine task, we successfully induced Hubristic pride and Authentic pride;(2) There is a difference between the evaluations of Hubristic pride and Authentic pride on others. Specifically, people who are hubristic pride have a more negative evaluation on others, while those who are authentic pride reduce the negative evaluation of others;(3) In interpersonal relationships, who are authentic pride enhance self-awareness through emphasizing the similarity to strong others, while those who are hubristic pride enhance self-awareness through emphasizing the differences to weak others.