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Awe, the Diminished Self, and Collective Engagement: Universals and Cultural Variations in the Small Self
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It is proposed that awe diminishes the sense of self and shifts attention away from individual interests and concerns, fitting with claims that awe promotes integration into social groups.
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The Dark Side of the Sublime: Distinguishing a Threat-Based Variant of Awe
Theoretical conceptualizations of awe suggest this emotion can be more positive or negative depending on specific appraisal processes. However, the emergent scientific study of awe rarely emphasizes…
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Self-Transcendent Emotions and Their Social Functions: Compassion, Gratitude, and Awe Bind Us to Others Through Prosociality
In this article we review the emerging literature on the self-transcendent emotions. We discuss how the self-transcendent emotions differ from other positive emotions and outline the defining…
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Class and compassion: socioeconomic factors predict responses to suffering.
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A potential mechanism of class-based influences on compassion, whereby lower-class individuals' are more attuned to others' distress, relative to their upper-class counterparts is discussed.
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Positive affect and markers of inflammation: discrete positive emotions predict lower levels of inflammatory cytokines.
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This work examines the link between dispositional positive affect and one potential biological pathway between positive emotions and health-proinflammatory cytokines, specifically levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), finding support for this hypothesis across two studies.
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The virtues of gossip: reputational information sharing as prosocial behavior.
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The existence and dynamics of prosocial gossip are established, the sharing of negative evaluative information about a target in a way that protects others from antisocial or exploitative behavior and implications for reputational theories of the maintenance of cooperation in human groups are discussed.
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Affective and physiological responses to the suffering of others: compassion and vagal activity.
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It is proposed that compassion is associated with activation in the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system through the vagus nerve, and increases in RSA during compassion positively predicted an established composite of compassion-related words, continuous self-reports of compassion, and nonverbal displays of compassion.
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Unethical and Inept? The Influence of Moral Information on Perceptions of Competence
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It is found that people readily use information about another’s morality when judging their competence, despite holding folk intuitions that these domains are independent.
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The Corruption of Value
We investigate the possibility that negative moral associations can reduce the desirability and perceived value of money, and that they do so by threatening to contaminate individuals’ perceptions of…
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Initial Insights From a Study of Emotions and Positive Personality Change in Syrian Origin Young Adults Who Have Recently Resettled in the Netherlands
Post-traumatic growth is a compelling idea (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 2014), yet, extant research has often employed retrospective reports of change, rather than examining change over time. In Karakter, we…
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