Awe

Design can make it more likely people will feel awed in multiple ways, for example via exquisite workmanship or material use.  Pan and Jiang studied “global self-continuity (GSC), a sense of connectedness among past, present, and future selves . . . [and] examined the relationship between awe and GSC. . . . We found awe positively associated with . . . and predicted . . . GSC.”

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Xinyu Pan and Tonglin Jiang.  2023. “Awe Fosters Global Self-Continuity:  The Mediating Effect of Global Processing and Narrative.”  Emotion, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1618-1632, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001187