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“It was like lying”: “Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, April 10, 2015, https://nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm.
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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.” Cognition & Emotion 21 (2007): 944–63.
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People feeling awe named qualities: Fiske, Alan. P. Structures of Social Life. New York: Free Press, 1991.
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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.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114, no. 2 (2018): 258–69.
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“the earth as a giant organism”: Holmes, Richard. The 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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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.” Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 3, no. 1 (2016): 1–11.
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Here is astronaut Ed Gibson: White, Frank. The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution. 2nd ed. Reston, VA: American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998, 41.
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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.” Biological Psychiatry 78, no. 4 (2016): 224–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.02.020. Epub February 24, 2015. PMID: 25861700; PMCID: PMC4524294. In more specific terms, the DMN includes the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is engaged when people evaluate progress toward their personal goals, and the posterior cingulate cortex, which is active when we think about memories of our past or how to navigate space from our own point of view.
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threat-filled awe: Takano, Ryota, and Michio Nomura. “Neural Representations of Awe: Distinguishing Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms.” Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000771.
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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.” Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience 12 (2018): 209. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00209.
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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.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113, no. 2 (2016): 310–28.
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It is worth noting: Barrett, Frederick S., and Roland R. Griffiths. “Classic Hallucinogens and Mystical Experiences: Phenomenology and Neural Correlates.” Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences 36 (2018): 393–430. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28401522/.
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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.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113, no. 2 (2017): 185–209.
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“I celebrate myself”: Whitman, Walt. Song of Myself: 1892 Edition. Glenshaw, PA: S4N Books, 2017, 1.
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In The 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.