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The science of awe and the awe of science with Dr. Dacher Keltner

Beauty At Work

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What Is Awe?

Awe is the feeling of encountering vast mysteries that you can't make sense of with your current understanding of the world. Wonder is more of a mental state or an epistemological state that follows awe. And we have to differentiate awe from fear and horror, which are really about peril and death and destruction.

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