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“moral law within”: Kant, Immanuel, and John H. Bernard. Kant’s Critique of Judgement. London: Macmillan, 1914.
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health professionals get burned out: Berg, Sara. “Physician Burnout: Which Medical Specialties Feel the Most Stress.” American Medical Association, January 21, 2020. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/physician-burnout-which-medical-specialties-feel-most-stress. This survey finds upward of 50 percent of physicians reporting feeling burned out at their work.
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the power of an epiphany: Kim, Sharon. Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850–1950: Constellations of the Soul. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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the power of witnessing: Thomson, Andrew L., and Jason T. Siegel. “Elevation: A Review of Scholarship on a Moral and Other-Praising Emotion.” Journal of Positive Psychology 12, no. 6 (2017): 628–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1269184.
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These encounters lead people: Aquino, Karl, Dan Freeman, Americus Reed II, Vivien K. G. Lim, and Will Felps. “Testing a Social Cognitive Model of Moral Behavior: The Interaction of Situational Factors and Moral Identity Centrality.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 97 (2009): 123–41. Johnson, Sara K., et al. “Adolescents’ Character Role Models: Exploring Who Young People Look Up To as Examples of How to Be a Good Person.” Research in Human Development 13 (2016): 126–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2016.1164552.
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they often imitate others’ acts: A philosophical argument for this is found in Jesse Prinz’s essay in this book: Prinz, Jesse J. “Imitation and Moral Development.” In Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science. Vol. 2, Imitation, Human Development, and Culture, edited by Susan E. Hurley and Nick E. Chater, 267–82. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. A recent review of eighty-eight studies involving 25,000 participants from around the world documents how robust our tendency is to imitate the prosocial behaviors of others, sharing, cooperation, and assisting in need. Jung, Haesung, Eunjin Seo, Eunjoo Han, Marlone D. Henderson, and Erika A. Patall. “Prosocial Modeling: A Meta-analytic Review and Synthesis.” Psychological Bulletin 146, no. 8 (2020): 635–63. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000235.
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share stories of moral beauty: Song, Hyunjin, Homero G. de Zúñiga, and Hajo G. Boomgaarden. “Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways through ‘News Finds Me.’ ” Perception, Mass Communication and Society 23, no. 1 (2020): 47–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1651867.
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In their grief: Freeman, Dan, Karl Aquino, and Brent McFerran. “Overcoming Beneficiary Race as an Impediment to Charitable Donations: Social Dominance Orientation, the Experience of Moral Elevation, and Donation Behavior.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 35 (2009): 72–84. This study used a portrayal of the Amy Biehl story as an elicitor of the feelings of moral beauty, or awe.
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“social dominance orientation”: Pratto, Felicia, Jim Sidanius, and Shana Levin. “Social Dominance Theory and the Dynamics of Intergroup Relations: Taking Stock and Looking Forward.” European Review of Social Psychology 17 (2006): 271–320.
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Witnessing others’ acts of courage: Wang, Tingting, Lei Mo, Ci M. Li, Hai Tan, Jonathan S. Cant, Luojin Zhong, and Gerald Cupchik. “Is Moral Beauty Different from Facial Beauty? Evidence from an fMRI Study.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10, no. 6 (2015): 814–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu123.
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the release of oxytocin: Piper, Walter T., Laura R. Saslow, and Sarina R. Saturn. “Autonomic and Prefrontal Events during Moral Elevation.” Biological Psychology 108 (2015): 51–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.03.004. Epub March 23, 2015. PMID: 25813121.
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Yuyi’s most recent book: Morales, Yuyi. Dreamers. New York: Neal Porter Books, 2019.
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When I spoke with Yuyi: Yuyi’s gratitude letter is a powerful practice in the science of happiness. Brown, Joshua, and Joel Wong. “How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain.” Greater Good, June 6, 2017. “A Thank-You to Librarians Who Make Everyone Feel Welcome.” Gratefulness.org. Greater Good Science Center. Accessed March 4, 2022. https://gratefulness.org/resource/a-thank-you-to-librarians-who-make-everyone-feel-welcome/.
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Yuyi’s letter of gratitude: Woodruff, Paul. Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Subtle is everyday reverence: Brown, Penelope, and Steven J. Levinson. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
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convey reverential deference: Keltner, Dacher, Randall C. Young, and Brenda N. Buswell. “Appeasement in Human Emotion, Personality, and Social Practice.” Aggressive Behavior 23 (1997): 359–74. Gordon, Amie M., Emily A. Impett, Aleksandr Kogan, Christopher Oveis, and Dacher Keltner. “To Have and to Hold: Gratitude Promotes Relationship Maintenance in Intimate Bonds.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103 (2012): 257–74.
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With a simple warm clasp: Gordon, Amie M., Emily A. Impett, Aleksandr Kogan, Christopher Oveis, and Dacher Keltner. “To Have and to Hold: Gratitude Promotes Relationship Maintenance in Intimate Bonds.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103 (2012): 257–74.