Who engages with moral beauty?

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Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, methodology): “…or character strength of Engagement with moral beauty (EmB; see also Diessner et al., 2008) entails frequent and perhaps intense appreciation and awe related to moral beauty (Diessner et al., 2008); thus, it is the disposition to experience elevation as an emotional state (Diessner et al., 2013).”
Engaging with Natural Beauty May Be Related to Well-Being Because It Connects People to Nature: Evidence from Three Cultures (2017, unknown): “It is, thus, not surprising that previous research has also shown a strong relationship between EWNB and nature connectedness (Diessner et al., 2013; Zhang, Howell, & Iyer, 2014; Zhang, Piff, Iyer, Koleva, & Keltner, 2014).”
Elevation: A review of scholarship on a moral and other-praising emotion (2017, background): “…has been chronicled to have distinct psychological or behavioral outcomes from other positive emotional states such as admiration (e.g. Diessner et al., 2013), amusement (e.g. Silvers & Haidt, 2008), happiness/ joy (e.g. Oliver et al., 2012), natural awe (Schnall et al., 2010), and…”
Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being (2014, background): “, 2008), reported wanting to do good for others when they watched a morally uplifting video compared to less morally uplifting video (Diessner et al., 2013).”