Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior
Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior is a journal article by Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, Matthew Feinberg, Daniel M. Stancato, Dacher Keltner (2015), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 8 practices across 7 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this journal article is put to use.
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Practices on IX Coach that cite Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behavior
- Deliberately invoke the small-self shift
Seek an encounter with something genuinely vast to let your personal concerns be re-proportioned.
Awe and the Small Self
- Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical
- Look for awe and scale
Seek vast or intricate natural sights that produce a felt sense of awe.
Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku), Honestly Explained
- Write from a small-self perspective after awe
After an awe experience, write briefly from the perspective of someone whose personal concerns feel appropriately small.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
- Use awe to reconnect with something larger than yourself
When awe makes the self feel small, follow the natural impulse toward belonging — toward community, nature, or humanity at large.
- Courting the small self
Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
- Cultivate oceanic or cosmic feeling through awe practices
Regularly seek encounters with what is vast, ancient, or radically beyond human scale.
Maslow’s Self-Transcendence, Made Practical
- Deep time humility
Situate yourself in deep geological and historical time to shrink ego-urgency and expand perspective.
The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life
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