Date of Award

8-24-2024

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D.

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Carrie Landin

Second Advisor

Gwen Mitchell

Third Advisor

Louis Hoffman

Keywords

Awe, Museums, Awe interventions, Community psychology, Nature and science

Abstract

Several scholars consider awe to be a universally experienced emotion that is associated with a variety of well-being outcomes. In the last two decades, research has revealed the many complicated, and often beneficial, effects of this self-transcendent emotion. In this paper, a review of the current theoretical and empirical understanding of awe is first discussed. This review is meant to provide context for the next section and primary aim of this paper, which is to propose a pilot study for implementing and evaluating awe-inducing interventions in a museum setting. The primary research question of this proposed pilot study is to determine if the proposed interventions are indeed effective at increasing feelings of awe for visitors of the museum. The anticipated outcomes of the proposed pilot study, limitations of the study, and directions for further research are also discussed.

Copyright Date

7-12-2024

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

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Rights Holder

Zach Calo

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

45 pgs

File Size

403 KB

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