# UBC Emotion \& Self Lab

> Jess is a leading expert in the science of emotions, and her research focuses on self\-conscious emotions like pride and shame, as well as social rank and hierarchy, morality, and meaning in life\.

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## Pages
- [Home](https://drjesstracy.com/)
- [UBC Emotion Lab](https://drjesstracy.com/ubc-emotion-lab/)
- [About](https://drjesstracy.com/about/)
- [Contact](https://drjesstracy.com/contact/)

## Books
- [Why We Matter: The Science Behind What Makes Life Meaningful](https://drjesstracy.com/books/why-we-matter-the-science-behind-what-makes-life-meaningful/): Our society has achieved extraordinary scientific insight, yet many feel that our lives don’t matter\. Our scientific worldview confirms this belief, telling us we’re accidents in a meaningless universe\. But as Tracy shows, this view is based on scientism, not science, and it’s wrong\. She offers a scientifically accurate and more hopeful vision… 
- [Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success](https://drjesstracy.com/books/take-pride/): A leading psychologist reveals how our most misunderstood emotion—pride—has shaped our minds and our culture, and shows how we can harness its power\.
- [The Self\-Conscious Emotions: Theory and Research](https://drjesstracy.com/books/the-self-conscious-emotions-theory-and-research/): Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self\-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning\. 
- [The Psychology of Social Status](https://drjesstracy.com/books/the-psychology-of-social-status/): The Psychology of Social Status outlines the foundational insights, key advances, and developments that have been made in the field thus far\. 

## News
- [New paper out in Nature Reviews Psychology](https://drjesstracy.com/news/2026/08/new-paper-out-in-nature-reviews-psychology-gabrielle-ibasco-jess-tracy-and-others-publish-an-integrative-review-of-the-perils-and-promises-of-big-data-science-for-the-field-of-psychology/)
- [Humans' heart rate can be down\-regulated in response to fear\-inducing stimuli, by physical touch with a robot](https://drjesstracy.com/news/2026/03/now-published-our-new-paper-showing-that-human-heart-rate-in-response-to-fear-inducing-stimuli-can-be-down-regulated-by-physical-touch-with-a-seemingly-calm-robot/)
- [Lab alumnus Zak Witkower just awarded an SPSP Sage Emerging Scholar Award\!](https://drjesstracy.com/news/2025/09/lab-alumnus-zak-witkower-just-awarded-an-spsp-sage-emerging-scholar-award-big-congrats-to-zak/)
- [Science beliefs erode meaning in life](https://drjesstracy.com/news/2024/05/cdps-in-press/)
- [Gendered cognition is universal ](https://drjesstracy.com/news/2024/08/ashley-pnas/)

## Research Tools
- [UC Davis Set of Emotion Expressions \(UCDSEE\)](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/nucdsee/): This new set of emotion expressions includes jpegs of anger, embarrassment, fear, disgust, happiness, pride, sadness, shame, and surprise expressions\. 
- [State\-Trait Scales for Distinct Positive Emotions \(STS\-DPE\)](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/state-trait-scales-for-distinct-positive-emotions-sts-dpe/)
- [7\-Item Authentic and Hubristic Pride Scales](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/7-item-authentic-and-hubristic-pride-scales/): Development and validation of these scales are reported in: Tracy, J\. L\., \& Robins, R\. W\. \(2007\)\. The psychological structure of pride: A tale of two facets\. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 506\-525\.
- [Dominance\-Prestige Scales](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/dominance-prestige-scales/): The development of the Dominance\-Prestige scales shown below are reported in: Cheng, J\. T\., Tracy, J\. L\., \& Henrich, J\. \(2010\)\. Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status\. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 334\-347\.
- [Robins, Noftle, \& Tracy \(2007\) chapter reviewing all available methods of assessing self\-conscious emotions](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/robins-noftle-tracy/): In this chapter, we provide an overview of measures of self\-conscious emotions
\(embarrassment, guilt, pride, and shame\)\.

## Team
- [Jessica L\. Tracy, Ph\.D\.](https://drjesstracy.com/people/dr-jessica-tracy/)
- [Becky Schaumberg](https://www.beckyschaumberg.com/)
- [Dacher Keltner](https://www.dacherkeltner.com/)
- [Nick Rule](https://rule.psych.utoronto.ca/)
- [Ashley Martin](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/ashley-martin/)

## Media Topics
- [Take Pride](https://drjesstracy.com/press-coverage/topic/take-pride/)
- [Emotion](https://drjesstracy.com/press-coverage/topic/emotion/)
- [Pride](https://drjesstracy.com/press-coverage/topic/pride/)
- [Expression](https://drjesstracy.com/press-coverage/topic/expression/)
- [Shame](https://drjesstracy.com/press-coverage/topic/shame/)

## News Categories
- [News](https://drjesstracy.com/news/type/news/)

## Publication Topics
- [Emotion](https://drjesstracy.com/publications/topic/emotion/)
- [Pride](https://drjesstracy.com/publications/topic/pride/)
- [Expression](https://drjesstracy.com/publications/topic/expression/)
- [Social Status](https://drjesstracy.com/publications/topic/social-status/)
- [Self\-Conscious Emotion](https://drjesstracy.com/publications/topic/self-conscious-emotion/)

## Research Tool Categories
- [Emotion Research Tools](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/category/emotion-research-tools/)
- [Other Research Tools](https://drjesstracy.com/research-tools/category/other-research-tools/)

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