The emotion labeled pride is the consequence of a successful evaluation of a specific action. The phenomenological experience might be described as joy over an action, thought, or feeling well done. Here, again, the focus of pleasure is specific and related to a particular behavior. In pride, just as in guilt, the self and object are separated. Unlike shame and hubris, where subject and object are fused, pride focuses the organism on its action. The organism is engrossed in the specific action that gives it pride. Some investigators have likened this state to achievement motivation, an association that is particularly apt. Because this positive state is associated with a particular action, individuals have available to them the means by which they can reproduce the state. Notice that, unlike hubris, pride’s specific focus allows for action. Unfortunately, because of the use of the term pride to refer to both hubris and efficacy and satisfaction, the study of pride has received relatively little attention. Carol S. Dweck and Ellen L. Leggett have approached pride through the use of individuals’ implicit theories. Like others such as Michael Lewis they see cognitive attribution as the stimuli for the elicitation of the self-conscious emotion of mastery.