Tears of Awe

Dacher Keltner has been studying the “science” of awe for more than 20 years. His first paper, coauthored with Jonathan Haidt, was published in 2003: Approaching Awe, a Moral, Spiritual, and Aesthetic Emotion. The paper observed that there are two core elements of awe: perceived vastness and a need for accommodation. In the book Awe: […]