Yena Kim

Going beyond ourselves: the role of self-transcendent experiences in wisdom.

Cognition & Emotion February 1, 2023 Yena Kim, Howard C Nusbaum, Fan Yang 22 citations

Having good moral character often involves shifting one's focus of attention from the self to others and the world. Across three studies (N = 605 adults), we found converging evidence that self-transcendent experiences, specifically awe and flow, enabled the expression of wisdom, as captured by wise reasoning and epistemic humility measures. Study 1 found that dispositionally awe- and...