Mitchell

Excited to announce new paper in Emotion by me, @dznycer, & @pdurkee: "Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures” psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi… 🧵

The blossoms are on display at the floral show.

Body parts (human & non-human) are the largest semantic domain in the Swadesh list—a set of 100 words found in all known languages—followed by verbs, adjectives, and nat. phenomena en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_l… If reading this, you almost certainly have them! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Some have argued that the undeserved success of others elicits envy. But do such undeserved successes—for example, ill-gotten acquisitions—actually elicit envy? psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi… Cool new paper by @MitchSBLanders & Alex Shaw

Had a good chat with the Davids about the so-called self-conscious emotions

Also, shoutout Anthony Lopez @EvoPolitics—should have tagged you!!

As work in these areas continues, an evolutionary-functional lens helps explain how these emotions differ and remains a powerful tool for understanding human nature /END

🚨🚨 New paper out now in Evolution and Human Behavior: "The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test" with Aaron Sell, Coltan Scrivner @MorbidPsych, and Anthony Lopez. doi.org/10.1016/j.evol… View the full paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lznH3tz49AM…

Trending article: The evolution of shame and its display - cup.org/3KlwKnc By Mitchell Landers & Daniel Sznycer #shame #emotion #evolution

Why this matters: provides an easy tool for ruling out false moderators of envy, clarifying theoretical debates & helping emotion researchers better distinguish between emotions, which also matters for better diagnosing envy-related issues in practice (schools, workplaces). /END

We scoured the literature and used the third-party criterion to assess some of the commonly proposed moderators of envy. We find that deservingness and likeability both fail (undeserving and unlikeable people upset everyone), while audience admiration passes.

🚨🚨 New paper out now in Emotion with the inimitable Alex Shaw🚨🚨: “Green-Eyed Monster or Green-Eyed Mirage? A New Procedure for Telling When Begrudging Others’ Success Is or Is Not Envy.” Paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…