Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion

By Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt. Cognition & Emotion, 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy

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Detecting and constructing meaning in life events (2009, background): “The emotion of awe, for instance, includes vastness (e.g., the sheer size of the eliciting experience) and accommodation (Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption (2013, background): “…of another person's extraordinary talent, or the extreme beauty of certain art, music, and architecture, has been theorized to produce awe, a rare but meaningful emotion that can produce not only enjoyment but a new understanding of the world at large, and of oneself (Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “Self-transcendent emotions sometimes include a small negative component such as fear for awe, or sadness (Keltner and Haidt 2003; Saroglou et al. 2008) that despite being marginal might be worth looking at more deeply.”
Appreciation: a spiritual path to finding value and meaning in the workplace (2012, background): “Keltner and Haidt (2003) defined awe as an emotional response to vast stimuli that require modification of our cognitive schema.”
Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being (2012, background): “The burgeoning research on awe depicts it as a distinct (Ekman, 1992; Shiota, Campos, & Keltner, 2003) and powerful emotion with two defining features (Keltner & Haidt, 2003; Shiota, Keltner, & Mossman, 2007).”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “Furthermore, science can inspire deep feelings of awe and wonder (Sagan, 2006 ), powerful emotions elicited by the perception of vastness and a perception that things are somehow connected in a greater whole (Keltner & Haidt, 2003 ).”
The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis (2019, background): “Nature-induced awe may be triggered by large natural objects, such as mountains or vistas, by natural events such as storms, or by objects with infinite repetition such as fractals, waves and patterns in nature (Keltner and Haidt 2003).”
Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging (2011, background): “Awe—the emotion of respectful admiration when facing a higher, more important, or deeper reality—may be a prototype of emotions elicited within a religious context (Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018, background): “Awe is associated with a number of themes potentially related to the experience (Keltner & Haidt, 2003), including beauty, ability, virtue, threat, and the 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 1 2 3 4 Degree of Agreement Kurtosis of mDES Awe Item Figure 1.”
Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. (2011, positive): “…2004; Ketelaar & Au, 2003; Sheikh & Janoff-Bulman, 2010; Tangney, Stuewig, & Mashek, 2007), pride and deference (Hen-rich & Gil-White, 2001), awe (Keltner & Haidt, 2003), gratitude (Algoe & Haidt, 2009), elevation (Schnall, Roper, & Fessler, 2010; Silvers & Haidt, 2008), and embarrassment…”