Pride and perseverance: the motivational role of pride.

@article{Williams2008PrideAP,
  title={Pride and perseverance: the motivational role of pride.},
  author={Lisa A. Williams and David DeSteno},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2008},
  volume={94 6},
  pages={
          1007-17
        }
}
  • L. Williams, D. DeSteno
  • Published 1 June 2008
  • Psychology, Biology
  • Journal of personality and social psychology
Perseverance toward goals that carry short-term costs is an important component of adaptive functioning. The present experiments examine the role that the emotion pride may play in mediating such perseverance. Across 2 studies, pride led to greater perseverance on an effortful and hedonically negative task believed to be related to the initial source of pride. In addition, the causal efficacy of pride was further demonstrated through dissociating its effects from related alternative mechanisms… 
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