Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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And as I got interested in awe, I was raised in a kind of a wild context of the late 60s and by an artist and a literature professor in Laurel Canyon, you know, crazy times, very awe-inspiring times.
And I was lucky enough to develop scientific tools to study it.
How do you study awe?
Like, what do you do?
You have people listen to music.
We take people outside and they look at big trees.
We have people think about someone who inspires them in a really life-altering way.
We've studied people in national parks.
We've studied people at the Great Wall in China.
We've had them look at big views.
There are other scientists who've gone to mosh pits at concerts.
So it's actually a pretty easy emotion to study.
We've done research in art museums, you know, and you can get people to feel awe if they slow down and look at a painting in a really powerful way.
And then you measure it.
You ask people how you feel.
You measure the brain.
You measure the goosebumps.
You measure activation of the vagus nerve.
Turns out, even though people think you couldn't study it, it's actually pretty tractable or easy to study in the lab.
You just did part of it.
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