A Conceptual Clarification of the Experience of Awe: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

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From Awe to Ecological Behavior: The Mediating Role of Connectedness to Nature (2018, background): “Secondly, awe could motivate people to take in new information or enhance people’s openness to novel experiences, which has been confirmed to correlate positively with CN [18,25,26].”
The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018, background): “While awe was once more explicitly mingled with fear (e.g., Burke, CONTACT David B. Yaden dyaden@sas.upenn.edu © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 1759/1970), awe has come to have a generally more positive connotation (Bonner & Friedman, 2011).”
Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. (2015, background): “Extraversion strongly predicts feeling joyful, enthusiastic, and energetic (Watson, 2000), all states that resemble the intense and occasionally euphoric character of awe (Bonner & Friedman, 2011; Braud, 2001).”