Awe
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Awe is an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. On Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions awe is modeled as a combination of surprise and fear. Keltner and Haidt, in a highly-cited paper, describ
Destruction of Tyre by John Martin (1840)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich
The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin
This Atlanta lightning strike may have inspired awe.
Emotion
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Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological and neuropsychological changes, variously associated with subjective experiences such as thoughts, feelings, behavioral respons
Awe
…Awe is an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. On Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions awe is modeled as a combination of surprise and fear. Keltner and Haidt…
Sixteen faces expressing the human passions – colored engraving by J. Pass, 1821, after Charles Le Brun