The roles of praise and social comparison information in the experience of pride.

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The authors examined the roles of social comparisons, publicity of success, and praise on the experience of pride in an experiment in which college students successfully completed a timed intelligence task in private and later received 1 of 4 types of feedback from the experimenter:
no feedback (private), mere public acknowledgment of completion, general praise containing both a public and an evaluative component, or praise containing explicit comparison information. Half of the participants also received written normative information suggesting they performed at a high level. Participants then completed a number of dependent measures, including a key measure of pride. Overall, results suggest that the public aspect of a performance, together with the superior standing suggested by any praise accompanying this publicity, is important in the experience of pride.

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Author/s: Webster, J Matthew (JM); Duvall, Jamieson (J); Gaines, Leslie M (LM); Smith, Richard H (RH);

Affiliation: Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0350, USA. webster(-atsign-)uky.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of social psychology (J Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 143 (issue 2) : pp 209-32

Dates: Created 2003/05/08; Completed 2003/06/03; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12735519, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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