AUTHOR=Li Jing-Jing , Dou Kai , Wang Yu-Jie , Nie Yan-Gang 

TITLE=Why Awe Promotes Prosocial Behaviors? The Mediating Effects of Future Time Perspective and Self-Transcendence Meaning of Life

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2019

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01140

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01140

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Awe is an emotion experience when individuals encounter with such powerful stimulate beyond their own understanding. Guided by conceptual analysis of awe as a trait positive emotion, we tested the hypothesis that dispositional awe results in an improvement of individual’s self-transcendence meaning of life and affects future time perspective, and increase prosocial behavior. Mediational data demonstrate that the effects of awe on prosociality are explained, by improving self-transcendence meaning of life self and future time perspective. These findings indicate that awe may help situate individuals within broader social contexts and enhance collective concern.