awe expands our sense of self: Shiota, Michelle N., Dacher Keltner, and Amanda Mossman. “The Nature of Awe: Elicitors, Appraisals, and Effects on Self-Concept.”
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People feeling awe named qualities: Fiske, Alan. P.
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the Campanile tower: Stellar, Jennifer E., Amie M. Gordon, Craig L. Anderson, Paul K. Piff, Galen D. McNeil, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe and Humility.”
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“the earth as a giant organism”: Holmes, Richard.
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the overview effect: Yaden, David B., Jonathan Iwry, Kelley J. Slack, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Yukun Zhao, George E. Vaillant, and Andrew B. Newberg. “The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight.”
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Here is astronaut Ed Gibson: White, Frank.
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the default mode network: Hamilton, J. P., Madison Farmer, Phoebe Fogelman, and Ian H. Gotlib. “Depressive Rumination, the Default-Mode Network, and the Dark Matter of Clinical Neuroscience.”
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threat-filled awe: Takano, Ryota, and Michio Nomura. “Neural Representations of Awe: Distinguishing Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms.”
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reduced activation in the DMN: In a similar vein, Fang Guan and colleagues found in a study in China reporting that people who feel more everyday awe and are open-minded and wonder-filled in how they approach life showed lower activation in the posterior cingulate cortex, an important part of the DMN. Guan, Fang, Yanhui Xiang, Chen Outong, Weixin Wang, and Jun Chen. “Neural Basis of Dispositional Awe.”
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DMN and the amygdala: Converging with these brain findings, Amie Gordon has found that threat-based awe triggers fight-or-flight physiology in the body, as indexed in the release of sweat in the glands in the hands and a boost in heart rate. Gordon, Amie M., Jennifer E. Stellar, Craig L. Anderson, Galen D. McNeil, Daniel Loew, and Dacher Keltner. “The Dark Side of the Sublime: Distinguishing a Threat-Based Variant of Awe.”
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It is worth noting: Barrett, Frederick S., and Roland R. Griffiths. “Classic Hallucinogens and Mystical Experiences: Phenomenology and Neural Correlates.”
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As our default self vanishes: Bai, Yang, Laura A. Maruskin, Serena Chen, Amie M. Gordon, Jennifer E. Stellar, Galen D. McNeil, Kaiping Peng, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Diminished Self, and Collective Engagement: Universals and Cultural Variations in the Small Self.”
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