People can be moved and touched by exceptional closeness between people or by outstanding willpower. We investigated the causal effect of these feelings on motivations. We based our research on the pr
A unique emotion, elevation, is thought to underlie prosocial contagion, a process whereby witnessing a prosocial act leads to acting prosocially. Individuals differ in their propensity to experience
299 participants from the United States were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to participate in a study about the unexpectedness of a recalled benefit on intended gratitude expressions (1