Role Of Awe Research Articles

Shades of awe: The role of awe in consumers' pro‐environmental behavior

AbstractClimate change is a critical issue right now. Despite substantial work in academia examining this issue, more solutions are needed to encourage consumers to engage in more pro‐environmental behavior. In the current research, we explore the ability of awe, a unique and powerful self‐transcendent emotion, to motivate pro‐environmental behavior and green consumption. Using different methods to induce awe and assess the effect of awe on consumers' pro‐environmental behavior, we conducted three experimental studies. Across our studies, our results show that when consumers feel awe, they are more likely to engage in pro‐environmental behavior and consumption. Further, we distinguish among three kinds of awe (awe of nature, awe of God, and awe from man‐made wonders) and show that awe arising from nature and from God increases pro‐environmental behavior more than awe from man‐made wonders. In addition, a series of mediation analyses show that the effects distinguishing different sources of awe are best accounted for by different mediators rather than one common mediator; specifically these relationships are mediated by consumers' feelings of small self (i.e., diminished self‐concept) and their level of spirituality, respectively. Implications for how marketers and practitioners can best utilize the power of awe for encouraging pro‐environmental behavior are discussed.

Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020

How Olympics reporters understand the Games and their role within them has implications for what and how they report. At stake in journalists’ storytelling choices are the representations of the Olympics themselves as well as representations of the host city and country — representations that can serve to bolster powerful institutions and dominant ideologies, or to challenge them and open new opportunities for change. Despite the importance of journalists to the production of the Olympic spectacle, there has been relatively little research that examines how Olympics reporters think about what it means to report on the Games. This paper explores what journalists’ perspectives and experiences can reveal about the opportunities and challenges for reporting from a “critical stance” at the Games. I highlight three key themes from interviews with journalists who reported on Tokyo 2020 for influential English-language publications: the role of awe in Olympics reporting; impressions of what readers want; and the role of reporters’ experiences at past Olympic Games. I suggest that at Tokyo 2020 there were more opportunities for critical reporting that portrayed Olympics problems as exceptional, rather than structural, although the space for structural critique may be growing.

Mindfulness to climate change inaction: The role of awe, “Dragons of inaction” psychological barriers and nature connectedness

To combat climate change and foster sustainable development, climate change inaction must be reduced, and this requires understanding the factors that lead to inaction. In the present research, we first investigated the possible mediation of the “dragons of inaction” psychological barriers (DIPB) and nature connectedness on the relationships between mindfulness and climate change inaction, and awe and climate change inaction. Later, an integrated theoretical model involving all the variables of interest was tested. The results showed that the associations of mindfulness and awe with climate change inaction were both mediated by the DIPB and nature connectedness. Moreover, mindfulness was significantly and negatively linked with climate change inaction through the sequential mediation of awe and the DIPB, and awe and nature connectedness. These findings advance the current understanding of climate change inaction. At the same time, they suggest that improving mindfulness and awe may effectively reduce climate change inaction by breaking down psychological barriers and increasing nature connectedness.

The culture of science communication in rural and regional Australia: the role of awe and wonder

Experiences of awe and wonder are vital to science and innovation. In this practice insight we explore how these emotions shape the culture of science communication. In doing so, we examine how exclusively nature- and place-based experiences for awe and wonder are often features of resource-limited settings. We then describe strategies for awe- and wonder-centred science communication beyond reliance on nature or the power of place by detailing a successful hybrid resourcing model in a rural Australian science centre. We finish by describing the role of science communicators in engaging potential collaborators to enable science communication in resource-limited settings.

Enhancing Residents’ Environmentally Responsible Behavioral Intentions: The Role of Awe and Place Attachment in Potatso National Park Communities, Tibet

China announced its first policy framework for the construction of a protected areas system centered on national parks in 2019. It is increasingly recognized that the intentions of local community residents to engage in environmentally responsible behaviors are essential to achieving biodiversity goals in area-based conservation. Using an extended theory of planned behavior that incorporates the emotional factors of “Awe” and “place attachment,” this research tested hypotheses and constructed a theoretical model regarding the environmentally responsible behavioral intentions of community residents within and outside Potatso National Park, a pilot park in the new Chinese protected area system. A quantitative questionnaire survey of residents yielded 503 valid responses, and structural equation modeling was used to test the theoretical hypotheses. The results show that Awe has a significantly positive effect on environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. It also has a significantly positive effect on Place Attachment and subjective norms, which also strengthen environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. In addition, Place Attachment was found to be an important mediating factor for the influence of Awe on environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. According to the general model, both rational and emotional factors drive the behavioral intentions of local residents. Moreover, the findings reveal that the regulating effect of Place Attachment plays a greater role among those whose livelihoods are more dependent on the natural environment, while subjective norms play a greater role among those whose livelihoods are less dependent on the natural environment. The results provide a useful theoretical basis and practical reference for the use of rational and emotional factors to drive environmentally responsible behaviors among residents in and surrounding national parks, and for the promotion of the role of protected areas in nature preservation and community development.

“How Does Nature Deify Us”

“How Does Nature Deify Us”

Factor Structure of the "Top Ten" Positive Emotions of Barbara Fredrickson.

In order to contribute to the consolidation in the field of Positive Psychology, we reinvestigated the factor structure of top 10 positive emotions of Barbara Fredrickson. Former research in experimental settings resulted in a three-cluster solution, which we tested with exploratory and confirmatory methodology against different factor models. Within our non-experimental data (N = 312), statistical evidence is presented, advocating for a single factor model of the 10 positive emotions. Different possible reasons for the deviating results are discussed, as well as the theoretical significance to various subfields in Positive Psychology (e.g., therapeutical interventions). Furthermore, the special role of awe within the study and its implications for further research in the field are discussed.

The Connotative Structure of High Quality Connections and Its Influencing Factors —The Role of Awe and Gratitude

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Consumption Trends During the COVID-19 Crisis: How Awe, Coping, and Social Norms Drive Utilitarian Purchases.

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis continues to worsen globally, there exists a widespread enthusiasm for buying utilitarian products in the retail market, irrespective of culture or nationality. However, the questions of whether and why being involved in a public health emergency like the COVID-19 crisis could modify consumer behaviors have been underexplored by previous literature. Drawing on the theory of awe that highlights the important role in influencing human behaviors when they are facing unexpected events that transcends the frame of existing references, the present research aims to clarify the relationship between COVID-19 involvement and consumer preference for utilitarian versus hedonic products. We collected data from 512 Chinese participants (319 women; average age 29.11 years; SD = 11.89) during the outbreak of COVID-19. The results of structural equation modeling showed that COVID-19 involvement was positively related to the preference for utilitarian products (vs. hedonic products). More importantly, this relationship could be explained via the mediated effects of awe, problem-focused coping, and social norm compliance. The present research emphasizes the non-negligible role of public health emergencies in modifying consumer behavior and the role of awe in explaining the psychological influence of public health emergencies.

The Role of Awe in Environmental Ethics

The Role of Awe in Environmental Ethics

Taking curiosity seriously: the role of awe and wanda in research-based professionalism

This article offers a rationale for research-based professionalism, especially in the contexts of schooling and teacher education. It also explores some of the problematic contextual issues facing those wanting to develop research-based professionalism – work overload, stress, excessive accountability, lack of adequate funding. Despite these problems, the article argues, the cultivation and pursuit of professional curiosity are essential if teachers and teacher educators are to convey the educative value of enquiry to those they educate. The pursuit of challenging questions also helps to guard against excessive, dogmatic authoritarianism in education. Curiosity is also the central driving force in research-based professionalism. The article is written in two voices – the personal and the ‘academic’. It draws on the author's reflective experience as a research co-ordinator in teacher education, trying to develop a research culture with colleagues in difficult national and institutional circumstances. These personal experiences are set against wider debates and issues about research-based professionalism. Wanda is a character the author created to illustrate the responses and reactions of colleagues, with whom she works, towards research-based work. Wanda is fictional, in that no one such character exists, yet she is also ‘factual’, in that the events and conversations illustrated through the character actually took place at some time, with someone, in the author's workplace over the period in which the article is set. The fiction is, thus, grounded in the data of the author's own ‘reality’, although some poetic licence has been applied in order to tell the story of Wanda with some theoretical coherence and validity.

The Role of Awe in Experiential Personal Construct Psychology

SUMMARY This article begins by elaborating an experiential personal construct psychology definition of reverence. A discussion of the experience of reverence in the therapy relationship begins by focusing on the therapist's reverence of the client and is followed by an exploration of the therapist accepting the client's reverence. Ways that the therapist and client can retreat from the experience of the reverential also are explored. Finally, I discuss the experience of transpersonal reverence within experiential personal constructivism.

The Hidden Psychosis of Open-Heart Surgery

In the observation of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, it has become evident that many of the emotional aspects of cardiotomy are hidden, in good measure because of the anxiety these procedures evoke in both patient and staff. For this reason, serious mental difficulties are often revealed only by careful interviewing. In this study, 12 apparently normal patients were examined. Eight of these patients were found to have suffered a major psychiatric upheaval and yet had managed to hide this from their medical attendants. This suggests that psychosis after openheart surgery is more common than anticipated and may be almost universal. The role of awe, as a response to having one's heart incised, is seen as a prominent feature among the several organic and psychological factors leading to the psychosis.