The concept, benefits and recommendations for the cultivation of compassion have been
recognized in the contemplative traditions for thousands of years. In the last 30 years or so …

In recent decades, numerous studies have suggested a positive relationship between
prosociality and well-being. What remains less clear are (a) what the magnitude of this …

Understanding the degree to which human facial expressions co-vary with specific social
contexts across cultures is central to the theory that emotions enable adaptive responses to …

How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or
with psychedelics promote mental and physical health? Our proposal in this article is awe …

Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of
reference. Guided by conceptual analyses of awe as a collective emotion, across 5 studies …

Numerous scholars have claimed that positive ethical traits such as virtues are important in
human psychology and behavior. Psychologists have begun to test these claims. The scores …

Purpose Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a substantive increase in compassion‐
based interventions aiming to improve psychological functioning and well‐being. Methods …

Theoretical conceptualizations of awe suggest this emotion can be more positive or negative
depending on specific appraisal processes. However, the emergent scientific study of awe …

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …