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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cohen, Adam B
• Gruber, June
• Keltner, Dacher

Titel

Comparing Spiritual Transformations and Experiences of Profound Beauty

Ist Teil von

• Psychology of religion and spirituality, 2010-08, Vol.2 (3), p.127-135

Ort / Verlag

Educational Publishing Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

EBSCOhost APA PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Certain highly emotional experiences have the potential to produce long-lasting and meaningful changes in personality. Two such experiences are spiritual transformations and experiences of profound beauty. However, little is known about the cognitive appraisals or narrative elements involved in such experiences, how they are similar, and how they differ. In a study of emotion-related narratives, these experiences were found to share many features but also differ in their valence. Experiences of profound beauty are almost always positive, but spiritual transformations are both positive and negative. Moreover, spiritual transformations seem to produce long-lasting change, but experiences of profound beauty, although evocative, do not seem to produce long-lasting change. An emotion approach helps to elucidate two understudied but important emotional experiences.