id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5218 Pride - Wikipedia .html text/html 5299 673 66 With a positive connotation, pride refers to a content sense of attachment toward one's own or another's choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, and a fulfilled feeling of belonging. Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g. that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others.[3] Some social psychologists identify the nonverbal expression of pride as a means of sending a functional, automatically perceived signal of high social status.[4] In contrast, pride could also be defined as a lowly disagreement with the truth. In psychological terms, positive pride is "a pleasant, sometimes exhilarating, emotion that results from a positive self-evaluation".[16] It was added by Tracy et al. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5218.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5218.txt