Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner, two professors of psychology at UC Irvine and UC Berkley respectively, both believe that the sensation of “awe,” (the strong emotion of respect, wonder, and inspiration), can boost peoples cohesiveness. In their 2015 scientific essay “The Uses of Awe,” they describe awe as the “ultimate collective emotion” that contains the ability to create a more positive outlook on life and transcend ones’s perspective of the world. The professors have faith that awe can be the key to unlocking the practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others and within humans, also called “human altruism.” In agreement, Piff and Keltner utilized multiple appropriate and resourceful experiments to help them elucidate
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On a walk through the Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus trees located on campus, the professors would purposely trigger an accident to demonstrate who would assist a person who fumbled some pens. Piff and Keltner learned that those who spent at least 60 seconds admiring the trees were the people who offered to help the person who dropped the pens more often, further elucidating how the sensation of awe can be the factor that enables others to help those in need. The professors’ study showcases how awe motivates people to do “good” and ultimately better other lives by actually sacrificing their own time to help another …show more content…
Professors Piff and Keltner have adequately proven that awe in humans creates only positive and resourceful feedback with actions following the experience. I too agree with the professors and believe awe can systematically brighten the everyday lives of those willing to take part in this self-effacing perspective of the world. Piff and Keltner established that people benefit from experiencing awe by being more charitable, generous, selfless, and sacrificial. The professors’ own experiments allow the audience, whether it be a common person reading the passage in a journal or a scientific researcher, to deduct that awe only serves as an aid to altruism. Professors Piff and Keltner were determined to verify that the feeling of awe serves as a conclusive motivator to positive behavior because they consider the time we are currently living in to be greatly “awe-depriv[ed]” and “individualistic,” an opinion I indeed acknowledge. They promote their experiments and studies as examples to elicit awe; a sensation as simple as goose bumps serves as enough for one to generate the feeling of awe. These two professors have exceptionally confirmed that even a brief sense of awe leaves one with a different and more humble sense of self that sparks the realization that we are all part of something larger than
On a walk through the Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus trees located on campus, the professors would purposely trigger an accident to demonstrate who would assist a person who fumbled some pens. Piff and Keltner learned that those who spent at least 60 seconds admiring the trees were the people who offered to help the person who dropped the pens more often, further elucidating how the sensation of awe can be the factor that enables others to help those in need. The professors’ study showcases how awe motivates people to do “good” and ultimately better other lives by actually sacrificing their own time to help another …show more content…
Professors Piff and Keltner have adequately proven that awe in humans creates only positive and resourceful feedback with actions following the experience. I too agree with the professors and believe awe can systematically brighten the everyday lives of those willing to take part in this self-effacing perspective of the world. Piff and Keltner established that people benefit from experiencing awe by being more charitable, generous, selfless, and sacrificial. The professors’ own experiments allow the audience, whether it be a common person reading the passage in a journal or a scientific researcher, to deduct that awe only serves as an aid to altruism. Professors Piff and Keltner were determined to verify that the feeling of awe serves as a conclusive motivator to positive behavior because they consider the time we are currently living in to be greatly “awe-depriv[ed]” and “individualistic,” an opinion I indeed acknowledge. They promote their experiments and studies as examples to elicit awe; a sensation as simple as goose bumps serves as enough for one to generate the feeling of awe. These two professors have exceptionally confirmed that even a brief sense of awe leaves one with a different and more humble sense of self that sparks the realization that we are all part of something larger than