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 classification
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Emotion classification is the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another. It is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science.
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, in a highly-cited paper, describe it as 'In the upper reaches of pleasure and…
Colored intaglio prints by Charles Le Brun and J. Pass depicting the facial expressions of sixteen emotions