The difference between pride and pride

Proud people will have higher levels of outward, sociable, self-respect and uprightness. Pride is often associated with selfishness and shame.

Researcher Jessica Tracy and Richard Robins of the University of Carolina, USA, discovered the difference between two personalities when reviewing previous studies of human behavior. They find that when people are proud of themselves, one is that they attach themselves to the confidence and achievements that the authors call true pride. Secondly, they automatically paint themselves and this is called arrogant arrogance.

Pride is often associated with more positive personalities than arrogance, but both states provide survival benefits for our ancestors.

"We know that pride is an emotion born out of evolution but it involves indirect survival," Tracy said. "Pride helps us maintain relationships with people, such as maintaining a foothold in the social ladder."

Those who have a sense of pride based on what they have achieved also consider the challenge to be the key to success in life, while the proud people often see success as a predetermined thing and based on the ability to inherit enjoy.

Tracy and Robbins believe that both forms of emotion are similar to other basic human emotions such as fear, sadness and anger - born as a survival tool.

The authors argue that arrogance can be a shortcut for humans to trick others into respecting themselves. If they cannot act to gain the respect of others, our ancestors will learn how to show how successful we are.

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