Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Filomena Kinnare I am from St. Augustine Fl and I am a sophomore at Florida State University. I am currently on the pre-mad track and I hope to continue participating in research throughout my undergrad.

Are Teammates Rivals or Role Models

Abstract

Victory, loses, celebration, defeat are all things that can lead to the feelings of pride and envy. These feelings of pride and envy can than affect how a person behaves. More specifically envy is based off an emotional response to pride. Furthermore, there are two different types of pride and envy. The first type of envy is called benign envy and is said to be an emotional response to authentic pride since is based in admiration and a more positive feeling. While malicious envy is said to be an emotional response to hubristic pride since is based on negative thoughts about the envied person. Our research investigates how a teammates perception of pride will predict a particular emotional response and how in turn that emotional response (e.g) predicts higher or lower participation in corresponding behaviors that may benefit or damage performance. We hypothesize when an athlete is observing their teammate’s display of pride, the perceptions of their teammate’s celebration will predict emotional responses of benign envy, malicious envy, and admiration and their motivational effects on corresponding behavior. Through a cross sectional round robin research design, we are surveying NCAA collective individual athletic teams (e.g.,). We expect to find that displays of authentic pride will predict more admiration and benign envy and displays of hubristic pride will predict more malicious envy. These findings will aid in the understanding of how the complex model of perceptions of pride and its emotional responses interact with team sports.

Keywords: Pride, Envy, Admiration, Performance