Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior.
@article{Piff2015AweTS, title={Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior.}, author={Paul K. Piff and Pia Dietze and M. Feinberg and Daniel M Stancato and D. Keltner}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={2015}, volume={108 6}, pages={ 883-99 } }
Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of reference. Guided by conceptual analyses of awe as a collective emotion, across 5 studies (N = 2,078) we tested the hypothesis that awe can result in a diminishment of the individual self and its concerns, and increase prosocial behavior. In a representative national sample (Study 1), dispositional tendencies to experience awe predicted greater generosity in an economic game above and beyond other… Expand
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