Elevation and the positive psychology of morality.

By Jonathan Haidt. 2003

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My Anger Is Your Gain, My Contempt Your Loss: Explaining Consumer Responses to Corporate Wrongdoing (2013, background): “These emotions, therefore, function as guardians of different portions of the moral order so to speak (Haidt, 2003) and motivate people to act to repair the moral order and to make violators change their behaviors when moral transgressions occur.”
Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration (2009, unknown): “Haidt (2003b) argued that such an emotion exists, and he relied on Thomas Jefferson’s choice of the word ‘elevation’ to describe it.”
Nature Involvement Increases Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Two-Week Experimental Study (2014, unknown): “…to participants in the control condition, participants in the nature intervention condition would, at the end of the 2-week period, report higher levels of net-positive affect, elevation (an emotion composed of feelings of warmth, openness, and inspiration; Haidt, 2003; Huta, 2013), and meaning.”
Moral emotions and moral behavior. (2007, unknown): “In fact, by crossing four categories of moral emotion (see Haidt 2003, following Ortony et al. 1988).”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, background): “The emotions that have been most frequently studied in the context of moral choice are negative ones such as shame, guilt, and envy (Haidt, 2003b; Tangney, Stuewig, & Mashek, 2007).”
Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, methodology): “…is elicited by extraordinary displays of (nonmoral) skill, talent, or achievement, and awe is the response to something greater or something vast that is beyond the current understanding of the self and, therefore, involves the need for accommodation (Algoe & Haidt, 2009; Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
Corporate Socially Responsible Initiatives and Their Effects on Consumption of Green Products (2016, background): “Company CSR Motives, the Moral Emotion of Elevation, and Consumer Behavioral Responses Elevation, one of the ‘‘other praising’’ moral emotions, is elicited by acts of charity, kindness, self-sacrifice, or other displays of virtue on the part of others (Haidt 2003).”
A moral act, elevation, and prosocial behavior: Moderators of morality (2013, background): “Keltner and Haidt (2003) posit that experiences of moral elevation may differ by gender; as such, gender was included as a covariate in every analysis, for every study.”
Who engages with moral beauty? (2013, background): “…variety of studies have indicated that elevation is associated with an action tendency of wanting to become a better person, to emulate the acts of virtue observed, and to serve others (Algoe & Haidt, 2009; Cox, 2010; Haidt, 2000, 2003, 2006; Landis et al., 2009; Vianello, Galliani, & Haidt, 2010).”
Challenging the Norm of Self-Interest: Minority Influence and Transitions to Helping Norms in Work Units (2012, background): “With respect to positive moral emotions, in some cases consistent helping behaviors that are perceived to have a prosocial impact may lead work unit members to experience elevation—the warm feeling of being inspired or moved (Haidt, 2003).”
Explaining Compassion Organizing (2006, background): “Several faculty and staff members mentioned feeling inspired and elevated upon hearing about the amount of money donated in such a short time, a feeling that prompted them to accelerate their own giving (Haidt, 2003).”
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017, background): “For example, awe may lead people to feel fearful, insignificant, or anxious in addition to more connected with others (see Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It (2019, background): “We are grateful to Andrew Beatty, Jonathan Haidt, Richard A. Shweder, Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, and Janis H. Zickfeld for their perceptive, cogent, and constructive comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.”