17 February 2002
The Good and Bad of Pride
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This week, the uncertain nature of pride. Arrogant pride can be a social faux pas, but feeling proud is important for a healthy sense of self esteem. From national pride to feeling triumphant about yourself, when does pride become undesirable or pathological? And what are the origins of this especially complex emotion?
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Guests
Dr Gavin Sullivan
Senior Research Psychologist Cumberland Hospital Parramatta NSW
mailto:Gavin_Sullivan@wsahs.nsw.gov.au
Glenn Weisfeld
Professor, Social Psychology Department of Psychology Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan
Michael Lewis
University Distinguished Professor & Director of The Institute for the Study of Child Development Department of Pediatrics Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentristy - New Jersey
Publication
Title: Chapter 4: "Pride and Shame" in Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolesence (Lives in Context)
Author : Glenn Weisfeld
Publisher: Basic Books (1999)
Title: "Darwinian Analysis of the Emotion of Pride/Shame", Chapter 22 of The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology
Author : Chapter by Glenn Weisfeld
Editors: Johan M.G van der Dennen, David Smillie & Daniel R. Wilson
Publisher: Praeger (1999)
Title: Reflexivity Reconsidered: A Wittgensteinian approach to the self-referentiality of psychology and persons
Author : Gavin Sullivan
PhD thesis in Psychology (1999), University of Canterbury
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author : Jane Austen
Publisher: First published in 1813
Title: Chrysanthemum and the Sword : Patterns of Japanese Culture
Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Company (Boston 1946)
Further Information
Self Conscious Emotions
Article by Michael Lewis American Scientist Magazine January-February 1995
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/95articles/lewis.html
The Natural History of Pride
Conference paper presented by Gavin Sullivan at "Language, Brain, Culture - An Interdisciplinary Conference" hosted by the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association in Sydney, 2001.
http://homepage.mac.com/asfla/lbcconf.htm
