Awe and prosocial tendency

Guan, Fang; Chen, Jun; Chen, Outong; Liu, Lihong; Zha, Yuzhu

doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00244-7

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“…Additionally, the rating of "inappropriate" for strong norm violations decreased after viewing positive awe clips. This result corresponds with previous studies that found that positive awe enhances tolerance of people in general by using the money donation task, helping time task, and dictator game (Rudd et al, 2012;Piff et al, 2015;Guan et al, 2019). On the other hand, interestingly, positive awe did not significantly change the Inclusion of Community in the Self (a measurement of a sense of belonging to society and community).…”

Section: Positive Awe and Attitude Toward Norm Violationsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Investigations into the nature and effect of awe on individuals and society are in nascent stages and researchers have a great deal yet to explore; for example, the effect of elicitor of awe on social cognition and time perception. Time perception has also been mentioned as an effect that differs between positive and threatened awe (Guan et al, 2019). Social norm violation is disorderly behavior, and ethnical judgment of such behavior may tolerate it in states liberated from time pressure.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Awe is an emotional response to stimuli characterized by perceived vastness and need for accommodation (Keltner and Haidt, 2003). Positive awe induces a feeling of being trivial in a vast world, that is "small self " (e.g., Shiota et al, 2007;Piff et al, 2015;Bai et al, 2017;Gordon et al, 2017), decreases aggression (Yang et al, 2016), and facilitates generosity and prosocial behavior toward people in general (Rudd et al, 2012;Piff et al, 2015;Guan et al, 2019;Li et al, 2019). Interestingly, awe-prone participants reported a high score on the openness-to-experience personality trait (Shiota et al, 2006), and high openness is associated with looseness in culture (weak social norms and tolerance toward norm violation) (Harrington and Gelfand, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Awe is roughly classified into two types based on valence: positive awe, which is a positive emotion and often induced by the beauty of nature (e.g., the Grand Canyon and aurora) and great people (e.g., Gandhi), and threatened awe, which is awe with a flavor of fear and often induced by the natural disasters (e.g., tsunami and tornado) or notorious dictators such as Adolf Hitler . Awe, then, has general and specific effects depending on its valence (Piff et al, 2015;Gordon et al, 2017;Guan et al, 2019). The influence of awe on tolerance toward others' norm violations may differ depending on the types of awe, as threatened awe does not enhance a sense of connection to everything unlike positive awe (Krenzer, 2018).…”

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Influence of Positive and Threatened Awe on the Attitude Toward Norm Violations

Sawada

Nomura

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Awe is an emotional response to vast stimuli needing for accommodation. Although several studies have revealed that awe led to more ethical attitudes toward one's own behavior and to generosity toward people in general, it is unclear whether and how the two types of awe-positive and threatened-influence one's attitude toward others' social norm violations. In the current study, we examined the influence of these types of awe on tolerance toward deviators' behavior by using a pre-post design and a scenario task within the Japanese population. The findings indicated that positive awe increased the tolerance of others' norm violations, while threatening awe did not.

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Section: Positive Awe and Attitude Toward Norm Violationsupporting

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Influence of Positive and Threatened Awe on the Attitude Toward Norm Violations

Sawada

Nomura

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Given that awe, especially the small self component, mediated the effect of threatening as well as beautiful natural scenery and prosocial tendency (Guan, 2019;Piff et al, 2015), prevalence of threat-based awe is speculated to be higher in Japan/East Asia. Consistent with these findings, our current study showed that awe was not completely separable from fear, but also closer to fear than respect was.…”

Section: Potential Cultural Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meaning of awe in Japanese (con)text: Beyond fear and respect

Nakayama¹,

Uchida²

2019

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Awe is theorized as an emotion appraised by perceived vastness and need for accommodation. This theoretical framework was developed with a review of spatially and temporally distributed literature mostly in the American and European cultural context, and is assumed to be culturally universal. However, awe as described by Japanese literature, was not explicitly included in the original theorization. We tested whether this framework generalized to the Japanese context by analyzing how Japanese awe-related words (e.g., “畏敬/ikei”) are used in Japanese text. A topic model was used to extract topics in contexts as an index of meaning. Results show that (1) the meaning of awe was statistically dissociable from similar but distinct meanings of fear and respect, and (2) the dissociating topics included transcendent entities such as god, spirits/ghosts, and powerful beings. Japanese meaning of awe includes vastness (i.e., transcendence) that goes beyond typical respect (i.e., power distance) requiring an accommodation of one’s mental framework.

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Awe in the workplace promotes prosocial behavior

Meng

2022

PsyCh Journal

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In the existing literature on awe, many research findings indicate the positive impact of awe on prosocial behavior. However, very few studies have examined awe in organizational contexts, and researchers have neglected to investigate the effect of awe induced by workplace elicitors. In a between-subject experimental study (N = 264), we introduced awe elicited by work factors, and examined its effect on prosocial intention and behavior (as compared with the neutral emotion condition and pleasantness condition). The results showed significant differences between prosocial intention and prosocial behavior in the three conditions. Importantly, awe evoked by workplace elicitors has a significant positive effect on prosocial behavior, and prosocial intention mediates this relationship. This study is among the first to examine the impact of awe induced by workplace elicitors, the results of which suggest that managers should consider creating workplaces that inspire awe.

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Awe and prosocial tendency

Cited by 87 publications

References 42 publications

Influence of Positive and Threatened Awe on the Attitude Toward Norm Violations

Influence of Positive and Threatened Awe on the Attitude Toward Norm Violations

Meaning of awe in Japanese (con)text: Beyond fear and respect

Awe in the workplace promotes prosocial behavior

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