Episode 20: The Science of Awe (with Dacher Keltner)

What exactly is ‘awe’ and does it bring us, as individuals or as a society, any benefit? Dacher Keltner joins Igor and Charles to discuss why Canadians feel differently about awe than the Chinese, how to take an ‘awe walk’, why emotions vary across historical time, and the importance of experiencing diverse emotions and how to balance them, while the 'Dacher-Guesses-Emotions' game reveals the alarmingly fine line between disgust and desire. Igor digs into controversies over different theories of emotion, Dacher talks of inequality and elation as the new frontiers of social psychology, and Charles learns that awe may play a key role in the very process of scientific discovery itself. Welcome to Episode 20.

Special Guest: Dacher Keltner.

Links:

• Dacher Keltner | UC Psych
• Greater Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
• Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory
• Mapping Emotion - Alan Cowen
• Dacher Keltner: Why Awe Is Such an Important Emotion - YouTube
• The Science of Happiness Podcast | Greater Good
• Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion - Keltner & Haidt (2003)
• Awe and Scientific Explanation - Valdesolo, Park & Gottlieb (2016)
• Awe as a scientific emotion - Gottlieb, Keltner, Lombrozo (2018)
• Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior - PIff, Dietze, Feinberg, Stancato, Keltner (2015)
• Awe and humility. - PubMed - NCBI - Stellar, gordon, Anderson, Piff, McNeil, Keltner (2018)
• Awe in nature heals: Evidence from military veterans, at-risk youth, and college students. - PsycNET - Anderson, Monroy, Keltner (2018)
• Emotional complexity: Clarifying definitions and cultural correlates. - PsycNET - Grossmann, Huynh, Ellsworth (2016)
• Wise reasoning benefits from emodiversity, irrespective of emotional intensity. - PsycNET - Grossmann, Oakes, Santos (2019)
• TEDxBerkeley (On Compassion) - Dacher Keltner
• An Awe Walk in Muir Woods - Mindful
• Why Do We Feel Awe? | Greater Good
• Exploring the powerful emotion of awe: How it can be awe-some and aw-ful | CBC Radio
• Jennifer Stellar: How Culture Shapes the Experience of Awe - YouTube
• Lani Shiota: How Awe Transforms the Body and Mind - YouTube
• Patterns of Cognitive Appraisal in Emotion - Smith & Ellsworth
• The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence: Dacher Keltner: 9781594205248: Amazon.com: Books
• Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life: Dacher Keltner: 8601401183044: Amazon.com: Books
• The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness: Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith: 9780393337280: Amazon.com: Books