The Wall Street Journal: Feeling a sense of awe causes people to feel less rushed and impatient—and, at least briefly, happier about their lives. Researchers induced awe in participants through various means, including watching televised scenes of waterfalls, astronauts in space, and whales, and reading about gazing out over Paris More
Examiner: Scientists Philip Gable and Bryan Pool of the University of Alabama recently decided to investigate the old saying “time flies when you are having fun”. Although they suspected there was some truth to the concept, they hypothesized that this only held true when you were engaged in ‘approach motivation’ More
Though the seconds may tick by on the clock at a regular pace, our experience of the ‘fourth dimension’ is anything but uniform. When we’re waiting in line or sitting in a boring meeting, time seems to slow down to a trickle. And when we get caught up in something More
The Wall Street Journal: When people feel permanently harried and strapped for time, maybe what they are missing in their lives is a sense of awe. A new study finds that people who are made to feel awe believe they have more time available to them, they’re less impatient, and More
The Telegraph: Regular “awesome” experiences may also improve our mental health and make us nicer people, claim psychologists. The findings raise the prospect of “awe therapy” to overcome the stressful effects of fast-paced modern life. Awe is the emotion felt when encountering something so vast and overwhelming it alters one’s More
The Atlantic: Here’s a question addressed straight to the soul (and the hippocampus): what are your most memorable moments of awe? If you’re like me, those moments are a bit difficult to specify and describe. If I really put my mind to it, images of a particularly fantastic (and almost More
