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Awe

By Dacher Keltner

The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. Penguin Press, 2023.

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Awe

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An eye-opening study of one of the most overlooked and underappreciated emotions that humans experience—awe—and the ways in which it binds our world together.

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Who should read Awe

Psychologists • anthropologists • students of human emotion and behavior • sociologists interested in shared identity • anyone who’s experienced the loss of a loved one • those seeking inspiration

About the author of Awe

Dacher Keltner is a Mexican-born American psychologist and professor based at the University of California, Berkley. As director of the Berkley Social Interaction Lab, Keltner studies human emotion and identity in addition to global issues of inequality and power. He is the host of popular podcast The Science of Happiness, and author of the bestselling book Born to Be Good.

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