The Positive Emotion of Elevation

By Jonathan Haidt. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Francesca Gino
2. Celia Moore
3. Karl Aquino
4. K. White
5. Rico Pohling
6. R. Diessner
7. S. Grappi
8. Simona Romani

In Social Psychology

1. Francesca Gino
2. R. Diessner
3. Rico Pohling
4. Celia Moore
5. Jason T. Siegel
6. A. Thomson
7. A. Elliot
8. Ravi Iyer

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond Moral Reasoning: A Review of Moral Identity Research and Its Implications for Business Ethics (2008, background): “Summarizing these strengths, Hardy and Carlo (2005) noted that Blasi: 1) emphasized the central role of self in moral actions; 2) addressed the issue regarding how moral action was motivated”
• A Review and Framework for Thinking about the Drivers of Prosocial Consumer Behavior (2020, background): “Another specific affective state that has been linked to prosocial behaviors is the moral elevation experienced when observing or hearing about another individual displaying extraordinary moral behavior (Haidt 2000, 2003; Schnall, Roper, and Fessler 2010; Aquino et al. 2011).”
• Does music induce emotion? A theoretical and methodological analysis. (2008, background): “Shweder, R. A., & Haidt, J. (2000).”
• Inspiration as a psychological construct. (2003, background): “Emotion researchers have begun to examine self-transcendent emotions (Haidt, 2000, 2003; Haidt & Keltner, in press; Keltner & Haidt, in press).”
• What Drives Consumer Shopping Behavior in Live Streaming Commerce (2020, background): “As previously described, the streamer’s attractiveness has been identified as an important content stimulus in live streaming commerce and is a key element of an appealing stream, which can motivate the viewer’s state of exhilaration and the elevation of emotion [Haidt 2000; Thayer 1990].”
• The Sudden Devotion Emotion: Kama Muta and the Cultural Practices Whose Function Is to Evoke It (2019, background): “(Algoe & Haidt, 2009; Haidt, 2000); Deonna and Cova’s framing of being moved as emerging from positive core values (Cova & Deonna, 2014); and Menninghaus and colleagues’ conceptualization (e.”
• How companies’ good deeds encourage consumers to adopt pro-social behavior (2014, background): “These emotion descriptors were adapted from Freeman et al. (2009) considering also the description of the moral elevation construct provided by Haidt (2000, 2003).”
• The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, background): “The moral-emotion elevation—a pleasant feeling after witnessing virtuous behavior (Haidt, 2000)—also serves group affirmation.”
• TARGET ARTICLE: Selective Investment Theory: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships (2006, neutral): “, & Haidt, J. (1999). The social functions of emotions at”
• Elevation: A review of scholarship on a moral and other-praising emotion (2017, methodology): “feelings of repulsion toward immoral actions of others), Haidt (2003) reflected that he had rarely thought about the opposite emotion - people’s response to witnessing morally virtuous actions. Fortunately, as Haidt (2003) elucidated, Thomas Jefferson outlined the basic features of elevation (also r”
• Elevation at work: The effects of leaders’ moral excellence (2010, positive): “‘If elevation increases the likelihood that a witness to good deeds will soon become a doer of good deeds, then elevation sets up the possibility for the same sort of ‘upward spiral’ for a group that Fredrickson (2000) describes for the individual’ (Haidt, 2000, p. 4).”
• A moral act, elevation, and prosocial behavior: Moderators of morality (2013, background): “Although not often discussed, Haidt (2000) originally theorized that social disgust is the opposite of elevation.”
• Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, methodology): “…help to connect with each other, to temporarily overcome our selfishness, and perhaps to move toward changing ourselves thus inducing an upward spiral of positive change, not only for the individual who experiences it, but for a whole community (Haidt, 2000; Keltner, Kogan, Piff, & Saturn, 2014).”
• Admiration: A Conceptual Review (2016, background): “Self-improvement Debated relation: (a) Positive (b) No relation (a) Algoe & Haidt (2009); Immordino-Yang et al. (2009); Schindler et al. (2015) (b) Van de Ven et al. (2011)”