Does incidental pride increase competency evaluation of others who appear careless? Discrete positive emotions and impression formation.

Emotion plays important and diverse roles across various social relations. Although the social functions of emotion have attracted increased attention, the effects of positive emotions such as pride on impression formation remain poorly understood. Drawing on social projection theory, this study exa...

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Main Authors: Toshiki Saito, Kosuke Motoki, Rui Nouchi, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220883