The sudden devotion emotion: Kama muta and the cultural practices whose function is to evoke it
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When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, “moved,” “touched,” “heart-warming,” “nostalgia,” “patriotism,” or “rapture” (although sometimes people use each of these terms for other emotions). We call the emotion kama muta (Sanskrit, “moved by love”). Kama muta evokes adaptive motives to devote and commit to the CSRs that are fundamental to social life. It occurs in diverse contexts and appears to be pervasive across cultures and throughout history, while people experience it with reference to its cultural and contextual meanings. Cultures have evolved diverse practices, institutions, roles, narratives, arts, and artifacts whose core function is to evoke kama muta. Kama muta mediates much of human sociality.
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- Authors
- Fiske, A. P., Seibt, B., & Schubert, T.
- Affiliations
- Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (PT)
- Corresponding author
- Fiske, Alan Page
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-11-13
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 74-86
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- OpenAlex
- W2770415942
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 14.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Repositório do ISCTE-IUL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Keywords
- kama muta, cultural practices, cross-cultural universality, social bonding, human sociality, cultural evolution
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