Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Cogn Emot. 2021 Jun;35(4):738-744. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1862765. Epub 2020 Dec 24.
Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend one's current frames of reference. Previous research indicated that awe promotes a smaller self, which led to the creation of a small-self hypothesis. Thus, we shed new light on this hypothesis in terms of sense of body ownership using a rubber hand illusion experiment; through it, we showed that awe evokes an increased sense of body ownership over the rubber hand and this effect was prominent among participants who experienced small self. Our findings suggest that awe might provoke a "liberation of the self" in terms of a sense of body ownership as awe has been thought to liberate existing schemas, hence informing the demonstrable implications of the psychological mechanisms of awe.
敬畏是一种对超越当前参照系的感知广阔刺激的情感反应。先前的研究表明，敬畏会让人产生一种更小的自我，这就产生了小我的假设。因此，我们使用橡胶手错觉实验从身体所有权的角度来验证这一假设，结果表明敬畏会让人对橡胶手产生更强的身体所有权意识，而这种效果在那些经历过自我缩小的参与者中更为明显。我们的发现表明，敬畏可能会在身体所有权方面引发一种“自我解放”，因为敬畏被认为可以释放现有的图式，从而为敬畏的心理机制的可证明影响提供信息。
