Dr. Dacher Keltner
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One of the joys of awe science, you know, we gathered stories of awe from 26 countries.
And it's one of my favorite parts of this research.
And this is like India and Brazil and Poland and Chile and Mexico and Japan and Korea, South Korea and Russia.
I mean, everybody.
We brought them in, got these stories.
You know, like what is vast and mysterious?
What gives you goosebumps?
What's amazing or awesome to you?
And when you get stories from Brazil or Argentina, they're going to tell you about football.
And when you get stories from parts of the United States, they're going to talk about football.
know american football and baseball you get stories from boston it's there's going to be a red sox story and we have not studied sports in my emotion science because most emotion scientists are not good athletes they're picked last in grammar school they're grouchy about sports and yet it's super emotional and i will tell you a story that has science and uh personal wisdom
As I gathered these stories, like, God, you know, part of collective effervescence, just like Taylor Swift or being in a punk mosh pit, is also sports.
And just like it is awesome to follow a sports team and be there live.
And there's this great obscure sociology paper that said,
being a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers is like being in a religion because you have your rituals, they have these towels they sing around, you think of yourself as the Steeler nation.
They talk about God-like experiences on the field.
They have these spiritual moments where in freezing days, they'll take off their clothes and cheer and cry together.
And I was teaching this recently and there were two Steeler fans in the audience and they're like,
That's exactly it, but I'll tell you more.
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