Elevation is the opposite of disgust. The term that was coined as a result of research into positive psychology. Scholars researching disgust eventually were able to label the opposite term, elevation. Elevation is a moral emotion and is pleasant. It is characterized by a feeling of expansion in the chest, a tingling feeling on the skin, and a desire to act morally and do "good". Thomas Jefferson originally described elevation as the response to moral beauty over 200 years ago, and only recentl.......................
References
edit- Haidt, J. (2003). Elevation and the positive psychology of morality. In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.) Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. (pp. 275-289).
External links
edit- Publications on elevation and other subjects within positive psychology
- Google search for "elevation emotion site:.edu"
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