Dr. Dacher Keltner

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Huberman Lab · Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

So it's good to find inspiration in that.

One of the great things about the science of emotion, and I brought these tools into the study of awe, which is...

We have learned a lot about how to measure emotion.

You can measure it with facial muscles and gaze patterns and coloration of the face and breath patterns and different measures of vagal tone and immune system activation and activation in the gut and of course brain activation and the voice, which is one of my favorite modalities.

I learned this in some sense from...

Darwin's expression of emotion in man and animals is in my view, and we're just publishing a paper on this, on everything that he said about human emotion.

53 emotions annotated with eight modalities of expressive behavior.

I wrote it with a Darwin scholar, Frank Soloway, who knows everything about Darwin.

And I choose how to study an emotion

based on what's happening out in our lives and the phenomena out there, right?

So if you're studying awe, you should get people around big trees or in musical concerts or in museums, right?

If I studied embarrassment early in my career and modesty, and I'm like, I got to study young men teasing each other because we embarrass each other, you know, intentionally.

I base it on what's the phenomenon of interest, right, that speaks to humanity?

And then what are our best measures that we can go after it?

First stop, and thank you for asking about measurement.

It's interesting, people are like, oh, you can't study awe.

You don't know how to measure it.

It's ineffable, it's mysterious, it's spiritual.

We can measure awe really well, you know.

The vocalization, whoa, you know, the facial expression, activation parts of the brain are deactivated, vagal tone, the goosebumps is a good part of the awe response.

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