• DOI:10.1037/pspi0000018
Corpus ID: 992237

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
        }
}

• Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, +2 authors D. Keltner
• Published 2015
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of personality and social psychology

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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