An occasion for unselfing: Beautiful nature leads to prosociality

By Jia Wei Zhang, Paul K. Piff, Ravi Iyer, Spassena P. Koleva, Dacher Keltner. 2014

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, background): “These positive emotions in turn may then lead to a decentering of the self, a shift of the perspective away from the self and toward others (Zhang et al., 2014).”
The Role of Methodological Choices in the Effects of Experimental Exposure to Simulated Natural Landscapes on Human Health and Cognitive Performance: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “, 2017), and attitudes toward nature (Bixler et al., 2002; Cleary et al., 2017; Zhang et al., 2014).”
Employee workplace spirituality and pro-environmental behavior in the hotel industry (2018, methodology): “The researchers employed SPSS 22 to test the study hypotheses (Zhang et al., 2014).”
Awe’s effects on generosity and helping (2016, background): “In fact, people who highly appreciate the beauty of nature also tend to be high in agreeableness (Zhang et al., 2014).”
Flourishing in nature: A review of the benefits of connecting with nature and its application as a wellbeing intervention (2015, background): “…that particularly beautiful, awesome, or immersive nature experiences provide additional benefits over more mundane nature stimuli (Joye & Bolderdijk, 2014; Weinstein et al., 2009; Zhang et al., 2014), though other work does not seem to rely on using particularly extraordinary exemplars of nature.”
Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being (2014, background): “…that the YourMorals website provides an alternative to traditional sample populations and has served as the data source for a number of recent empirical articles (e.g., Glenn, Koleva, Iyer, Graham, & Ditto, 2010; Graham et al., 2011; Koleva, Graham, Haidt, Iyer, & Ditto, 2012; Zhang et al., 2014).”