Awe Activates Religious and Spiritual Feelings and Behavioral Intentions

By Patty Van Cappellen, V. Saroglou. 2012

336 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Gender Studies

1. V. Saroglou
2. Barbara L. Fredrickson
3. Maria Toth-Gauthier
4. Patty Van Cappellen
5. Alice Chirico
6. David B. Yaden
7. Andrea Gaggioli
8. Jonathan Haidt

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. V. Saroglou
2. Alice Chirico
3. Patty Van Cappellen
4. Barbara L. Fredrickson
5. David B. Yaden
6. Andrea Gaggioli
7. Dacher Keltner
8. Maria Toth-Gauthier

In Social Psychology

1. Rico Pohling
2. R. Diessner
3. V. Saroglou
4. Jonathan Haidt
5. Dacher Keltner
6. Barbara L. Fredrickson
7. Patty Van Cappellen
8. Maria Toth-Gauthier

Citations in the corpus

• The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “Participants who experienced selftranscendent positive emotions were more likely to endorse items about the essential benevolence of the universe (Saroglou, Buxant, & Tilquin, 2008; Van Cappellen & Rimé, 2014; Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012).”
• Nature contact and mood benefits: contact duration and mood type (2018, background): “Several researchers studying these emotions refer to them as ‘self-transcendent’ (e.g, Stellar et al., 2017; Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012) and this label will be used henceforth.”
• Awe’s effects on generosity and helping (2016, background): “Some previous research indicates, for instance, that the effect of nature’s beauty on prosociality is greater for people who have a corresponding personal tendency to easily perceive natural beauty (Zhang et al., 2014); and awe’s effect on increased feelings of oneness with others is clearer for spi”
• Awe Enhances Creative Thinking: An Experimental Study (2018, background): “At the individual level, this emotion can amplify people’s perception of time (Rudd et al., 2012), support spiritual beliefs (Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012), and affect people’ body image (van Elk, Karinen, Specker, Stamkou, & Baas, 2016).”
• The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018, background): “Additionally, awe can temporarily increase spiritual-type beliefs (Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012) and the tendency to find intentionality in random strings of numbers (Valdesolo & Graham, 2014).”
• Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, methodology): “In addition, induced feelings of self-transcendent positive emotions of awe, elevation, and admiration have been shown to increase report of religiosity and spirituality (Saroglou et al. 2008; Valdesolo and Graham 2014; Van Cappellen et al. 2013; see Park and Slattery 2012 for a similar reciprocal m”
• Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, background): “For inducing the emotional state of elevation researchers have used recall-techniques (e.g., Haidt, 2000; Van Cappellen et al., 2013), videos displaying a moral exemplar in action (e.g., Algoe & Haidt, 2009; Diessner et al., 2013; Schnall et al., 2010; Schnall & Roper, 2012), the reading of moral st”