🧪 The Awe Effect
The goosebumps feeling, and what it actually does to you.
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🔬 The Research
The Goosebumps Feeling, Studied
UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent decades studying awe — that goosebumps, small-in-a-good-way feeling you get standing under huge trees, watching a storm roll in, or hearing an enormous piece of music.
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Both effects showed up in people after regular doses of awe — as if feeling briefly small in a big world makes room for everyone else in it.
👉 Try This Today
Go find one genuinely awe-inducing thing on purpose — a sunset, a night sky away from city lights, a piece of music that gives you chills — and give it your full attention for five uninterrupted minutes.
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