Based on years of studying the science of emotions, a new book by Dacher Keltner makes the case for the life-affirming power of awe.
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Based on years of studying the science of emotions, a new book by Dacher Keltner makes the case for the life-affirming power of awe.
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A significant new American study published a few days ago in the journal of the American Psychological Association, Emotion, found that even 15-minute outdoor “awe walks” could have remarkable impacts. In the study, 60 healthy adults aged between 60 and 90 went on walks over an eight-week period, taking photos of themselves throughout and rating their emotional experience.
Compared with the control walk group, the awe-walkers reported “greater joy and prosocial positive emotions during their walks”. They even began to smile more broadly and – how fascinating is this – began to focus less on themselves in the photos they took and more on the environment around them. While shifting away from capturing themselves watching awe to capturing the subjects of their awe, they became smaller.
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We are wrong to think of exercise only as something to build muscle and ease anxiety. If we can, we should force ourselves out of gyms and off machines into the natural world, knowing, or hoping, that we may stumble upon awe. According to the social psychologist Paul Piff and colleagues, studies have shown that people who regularly feel awe are more likely to be generous, helpful, altruistic, ethical and relaxed. When dwarfed by an experience, we are more likely to look to one another, care for one another.