The nature of awe: Elicitors, appraisals, and effects on self-concept

By M. Shiota, Dacher Keltner, Amanda K. Mossman. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Science Is Awe-Some: The Emotional Antecedents of Science Learning (2017, background): “Consistent with this conceptualization, awe can be both positively or negatively valenced and can be characterized by either approach or avoidance motivations (Keltner & Haidt, 2003), likely depending on individual differences in constructs such as the need for cognitive closure and openness to expe”
Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “the presence of something greater than the self ( Shiota et al., 2007; Study 2). Note however”
Awe Enhances Creative Thinking: An Experimental Study (2018, background): “Regarding this latter aspect, most scholars conceived this emotion as one of the mechanisms at the base of human knowledge (i.e., Shiota et al., 2007; Silvia 2010).”
Nature connectedness: Associations with well-being and mindfulness (2011, background): “Research suggests that awe (Shiota et al., 2007) and vitality (Ryan et al., 2010) are significant correlates of experiences in nature; interestingly, both are defined in a manner which suggests that they are associated with eudaimonic aspects of experience and are differentiable from happiness or…”
Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior. (2015, background): “In a similar vein, our manipulations of awe have primarily been more positively valenced, which is true of the broader experimental literature on awe (e.g., Shiota et al., 2007; Van Cappellen & Saroglou, 2012).”
Nature Involvement Increases Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Two-Week Experimental Study (2014, neutral): “Research points to a connection between nature experiences and awe (an emotion closely connected to elevation; Keltner & Haidt, 2003; Shiota et al., 2007), meaning in life (Howell et al.”
Sustainable Well-Being: A Potential Synergy between Sustainability and Well-Being Research (2011, background): “In addition, awe and wonder have also featured as significant aspects of human-nature relationships in other studies (e.g., Curtin, 2009; Shiota, Keltner, & Mossman, 2007).”
A Conceptual Clarification of the Experience of Awe: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2011, background): “Although earlier psychological understandings of awe routinely described elements of fear as predominating, more recent descriptions appear to deemphasize fear (Haidt & Seder, 2009 ; Shiota, Kelner, & Mossman, 2007 ).”
Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “What is the role of awe—the sense of wonder, amazement, and smallness that may occur in response to perceptually vast stimuli (Keltner and Haidt 2003; Piff et al. 2015; Rudd et al. 2012; Shiota et al. 2007)?”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “This family of positive emotions is ‘‘linked to the interests or welfare either of society as a whole or at least of persons other than the judge or agent’’ (Haidt 2003, p. 253; see also Algoe and Haidt 2009; Keltner and Haidt 2003; Shiota et al. 2007).”
Appreciation: a spiritual path to finding value and meaning in the workplace (2012, background): “Shiota et al. (2007) found that awe typically involves a sense of vastness and self-diminishment.”