Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being

By Melanie Rudd, Kathleen D. Vohs, Jennifer L. Aaker. Psychology Science, 2012

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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The Role of Emotions in Advertising: A Call to Action (2019, background): “They experience less time pressure, which leads them to become less impatient and more willing to help others and to prefer experiences to objects (Rudd, Vohs, and Aaker 2012).”
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).”
Absorption: How Nature Experiences Promote Awe and Other Positive Emotions (2018, positive): “For example, research indicates that awe increases focus on the present moment and satisfaction with life (Rudd, Vohs, Aaker, 2012) and positively influences generous behavior and prosocial values (Piff et al., 2015).”
Self-Transcendent Emotions and Their Social Functions: Compassion, Gratitude, and Awe Bind Us to Others Through Prosociality (2017, background): “Inducing awe leads to boosts in life satisfaction (Rudd et al., 2012).”
Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “This measure of subjective patience directly reflects willingness to wait (Chen et al. 2005; Rudd et al. 2012).”
Awe’s effects on generosity and helping (2016, background): “…in favor of admiration of the world as a whole (see Piff et al., 2015); feelings of transcendence and interconnectedness between all beings, and then gratitude; and, as suggested by Rudd et al. (2012), an increase of time perception, thus patience in welcoming others’ needs in one’s mind.”
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017, background): “Finally, awe is linked with higher life satisfaction, supporting the notion that the experience of transient positive emotions feeds into the broader construct of well-being, generating an upward spiral between happiness and positive life outcomes (Rudd et al., 2012).”
From Awe to Ecological Behavior: The Mediating Role of Connectedness to Nature (2018, background): “The emotion of awe as one typical transcendent experience dissuades individuals from concentrating on immediate personal interest [7] and prompts a broader existential approach of life that leads to the inclination to take into account the welfare of other people, the broader”
How Construals of Money versus Time Impact Consumer Charitable Giving (2015, background): “…contributions has largely focused on monetary donations (e.g., Fisher, Vandenbosch, and Antia 2008; White and Peloza 2009), contributions of time as a volunteer (e.g., Rudd, Vohs, and Aaker 2012), or both as separate dependent variables in separate studies (e.g., Ein-Gar and Levontin 2013).”