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Slow down, you're doing fine: examining the relationships between awe, expanded time perception, and life history strategy

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Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Psychology
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 Well-being
 Evolutionary psychology
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Spring 2024
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2024-05
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This two-part study fills an important gap in the literature on the self-transcendent emotion awe: Awe’s relationship to behavioral ecology and the mechanisms of awe and time expansion. Awe is thought to expand one’s perception of time by shifting attentional resources away from the self and toward an awe-inducing stimulus. In this way, awe may create distance from the self and generate a greater sense of connectedness. Perhaps awe’s many positive outcomes can be attributed to shifts in time perception, feeling as though time is more expanded and available. In Study 1, I focus on the dispositional components of the awe experience. As Life History Ecology has often been implicated in perceptual alterations of time, I examine its relationship to dispositional awe, the individual tendency to experience the emotion. Specifically, I predict that a slow Life History Ecology is positively related to greater dispositional awe. Additionally, I examine individual differences in time perspective as a mediator of dispositional awe’s well-documented outcomes, such as life satisfaction and subjective well-being. In Study 2, I experimentally induce awe with virtual reality technology to examine its impact on retrospective perceptions of time and self-reported well-being. I expect that individuals exposed to an awe-inducing stimulus will overestimate the time of the intervention as compared to those exposed to a neutral stimulus. Key Words: Psychology, Awe, Time Perception, Well-being, Behavioral Ecology
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