The nature of awe: elicitors, appraisals, and effects on self-concept
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Awe has been defined as an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that overwhelm current mental structures, yet facilitate attempts at accommodation. Four studies are presented showing the information-focused nature of awe elicitors, documenting the self-diminishing effects of awe experience, and exploring the effects of awe on the content of the self-concept. Study 1 documented the information-focused, asocial nature of awe elicitors in participant narratives. Study 2 contrasted the stimulus-focused, self-diminishing nature of appraisals and feelings associated with a prototypical awe experience with the self-focused appraisals and feelings associated with pride. Study 3 found that dispositional awe-proneness, but not dispositional joy or pride, was associated with low Need for Cognitive Closure, and also documented a relationship between dispositional awe and increased emphasis on membership in “universal” categories in participants’ self-concepts. Study 4 replicated the self-concept finding from Study 3 using experimentally elicited awe. Implications for future work on awe are discussed.
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- Authors
- Shiota, M. N., Keltner, D., & Mossman, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shiota, Michelle N.
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-07-19
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 944-963
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2099404678
- Cited by
- 1,025
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 89 · 2025: 132 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 129 · 2022: 98 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 54 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 62 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 0.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Keywords
- awe, self-concept, need for cognitive closure, dispositional awe, pride, joy, universal categories, emotion and cognition
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