“I celebrate myself”: Whitman, Walt. Song of Myself: 1892 Edition. Glenshaw, PA: S4N Books, 2017, 1.
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InThe Age of Wonder: Holmes, Richard. Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
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“Astronomy has enlarged”: Holmes, Richard. Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science. New York: Vintage Books, 2008, 106.
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Wonder, the mental state: Philosopher Jesse Prinz has written in illuminating ways about the evolutionary and cultural history of wonder: Prinz, Jesse. “How Wonder Works.” Aeon, June 21, 2013. https://aeon.co/essays/why-wonder-is-the-most-human-of-all-emotions. For an earlier historical consideration, see: Keen, Sam. Apology for Wonder. New York: HarperCollins, 1969.
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living with wonder: Shiota, Michelle N., Dacher Keltner, and Oliver P. John. “Positive Emotion Dispositions Differentially Associated with Big Five Personality and Attachment Style.” Journal of Positive Psychology 1, no. 2 (2006): 61–71.
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To the strengths and virtues: Stellar, Jennifer E., Amie M. Gordon, Craig L. Anderson, Paul K. Piff, Galen D. McNeil, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe and Humility.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114, no. 2 (2018): 258–69.
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our experience of color: Steve Palmer has done outstanding work mapping the emotional meaning of colors. Palmer, Steve E., and Karen B. Schloss. “An Ecological Valence Theory of Color Preferences.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 19 (2010): 8877–82. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0906172107.
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Laboratory studies have captured: Griskevicius, Vlad, Michelle N. Shiota, and Samantha L. Neufeld. “Influence of Different Positive Emotions on Persuasion Processing: A Functional Evolutionary Approach.” Emotion 10 (2010): 190–206.
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We perceive natural phenomena: Gottlieb, Sara, Dacher Keltner, and Tania Lombrozo. “Awe as a Scientific Emotion.” Cognitive Science 42, no. 6 (2018): 2081–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12648. This study found that people who feel more everyday awe are less likely to engage in what is called teleological reasoning; they are less likely to attribute phenomena to the narrow purposes they might serve. The teleological mind says that “bees exist in order to facilitate pollination in plants,” that “lightning releases electricity in order to travel,” and that the enticing quality of sap lures us into protecting a tree. See also: Valdesolo, Piercarlo, Jun Park, and Sara Gottlieb. “Awe and Scientific Explanation.” Emotion 16, no. 7 (2016): 937–40. In his superb book, philosopher Daniel Dennett suggests that this insight is perhaps Darwin’s most revolutionary idea, that the world is evolving not as the result of some transcendent or Divine purpose, but due to complex systems of evolutionary forces. Dennett, Daniel. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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the circle of care: Singer, Peter. The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
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Other participants watched the hilarious: Piff, Paul K., Pia Dietze, Matthew Feinberg, Daniel M. Stancato, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 108, no. 6 (2015): 883–99.
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Memphis University professor Jia Wei Zhang: Zhang, Jia W., Paul K. Piff, Ravi Iyer, Spassena Koleva, and Dacher Keltner. “An Occasion for Unselfing: Beautiful Nature Leads to Prosociality.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 37 (2014): 61–72.
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