Are You Awed Yet? How Virtual Reality Gives Us Awe and Goose Bumps
"Awe" is a category of emotion within the spectrum of self-transcendent experiences. Awe has wellness benefits, with feelings of social interconnectivity and increased life satisfaction. However, awe experiences remain rare in our everyday lives, and rarer in lab environments. We posit that Virtual Reality (VR) may help to make self-transcendent and potentially transformative experiences of awe more accessible to individuals. Here, we investigated how interactive VR as a positive technology may
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Published: 8 November 2018
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Environment · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (8 November 2018), “Are You Awed Yet? How Virtual Reality Gives Us Awe and Goose Bumps,” evidence record 8442, https://ethics.ai/record/8442 (originally published by OpenAlex).
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