Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior.

By Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, M. Feinberg, Daniel M. Stancato, Dacher Keltner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015

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From Awe to Ecological Behavior: The Mediating Role of Connectedness to Nature (2018, methodology): “The following materials to induce the targeted emotions were adapted from Gordon, Stellar, Anderson, McNeil, Loew and Keltner [39] and Piff, Dietze, Feinberg, Stancato and Keltner [18].”
Awe’s effects on generosity and helping (2016, background): “These findings importantly replicate, extend, and strengthen methodologically, conceptually, and crossculturally, initial previous work (Joye & Bolderdijk, 2015; Rudd et al., 2012; Experiment 2; see also Piff et al., 2015, for work published during the review period of the present paper).”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “Piff et al. (2015) summarize research on awe and the sense of self as such: “These lines of research on awe, self-categorization, and feelings of smallness indicate that awe can significantly alter the self-concept, in ways that reflect a shift in attention toward larger entities and diminishment…”
Inspired to Create: Awe Enhances Openness to Learning and the Desire for Experiential Creation (2018, methodology): “…1 ¼ “not at all,” and 7 ¼ “very much”), general desire to exercise on a nine-item index (e.g., “I desire to exercise,” “I want to go for a run”; 1 ¼ “not at all,” and 7 ¼ “very much”), openness to learning (as in Experiment 3), and perceptions of a small self on a ten-item index (Piff et al. 2015).”
The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion (2018, methodology): “Items used to measure this include ‘I feel small or insignificant’ (Piff et al., 2015).””
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)?”
Nature contact and mood benefits: contact duration and mood type (2018, background): “First, in addition to observing that nature contact robustly elicited awe, as has previously been observed (e.g. Piff et al., 2015; Shiota et al., 2007), the correlations between ratings of awe and feelings of interconnectedness (i.e. feeling part of something greater than myself, and connected to…”