Self-esteem, social esteem, and pride

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2020-06-19
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Salice, Alessandro
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This article explores self-esteem as an episodic self-conscious emotion. Episodic self-esteem is first distinguished from trait self-esteem, which is described as an enduring state related to the subject’s sense of self-worth. Episodic self-esteem is further compared with pride by claiming that the two attitudes differ in crucial respects. Importantly, episodic self-esteem—but not pride—is a function of social esteem: in episodic self-esteem, the subject evaluates herself in the same way in which others evaluate her. Furthermore, social esteem elicits episodic self-esteem if the values at the basis of the others’ evaluation are shared by the subject. Such sharing of values suggests that only the evaluations of those others that the subject frames as her in-group members are relevant to episodic self-esteem.
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Hetero-induced emotions , Self-conscious emotions , Self-esteem , Pride , Social esteem
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Salice, A. (2020) 'Self-esteem, social esteem, and pride', Emotion Review, 12(3), pp. 193-205. doi: 10.1177/1754073920930788
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© 2020, Alessandro Salice. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.