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Area of Science:

  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Awe is often studied as positive or negative, overlooking its complex, ambivalent nature.
  • Understanding the dual affective states in awe is crucial for a complete emotional framework.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the behavioral and neural representation of awe's ambivalent affect.
  • To explore how ambivalent feelings contribute to the subjective experience of awe.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized virtual reality (VR) for awe induction and electroencephalography (EEG) for neural data.
  • Applied deep representational learning, decoding analyses, and hidden Markov modeling.
  • Recruited 43 participants for behavioral and electrophysiological assessments.

Main Results:

  • Subjective awe intensity correlated with ambivalent feeling duration and intensity.
  • Ambivalent feelings were neurally distinct from positive/negative affect, with significant individual variability.
  • Neural activity in frontoparietal regions differentiated affective states during awe.

Conclusions:

  • Ambivalent affect is central to the subjective experience of awe, at both behavioral and neural levels.
  • Individual differences in neural representation of ambivalent affect predict subjective awe ratings.
  • This study offers a nuanced perspective on emotional complexity and its neural underpinnings.