![]() ![]() Oxford Companion to Affective Science (pp. The journal of positive psychology, 4(2), 105–127. Witnessing excellence in action: The ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration. Admiration is related to intentions to associate, cooperate with, and help members from groups that are admired. They propose that admiration is the emotion we feel towards those social groups we perceive as competent (or high-status) and warm (friendly and cooperative) (e.g., in studies involving students in the US, an example of a group perceived as competent and warm is the British). Group-based Īdmiration has also been studied in an intergroup context by Susan Fiske and her colleagues. Behaviours concerning the relationship Īdmiration is also associated with a tendency to praise the admired act to others, and a desire for contact and proximity with the admired. Using fMRI, admiration has been shown to be related with higher-level cognitive processes involved in motivation (e.g., planning, pursuit of goals), but also relates to lower-level activating mechanisms, demonstrating that admiration is a physically energising emotion. Witnessing admirable acts has been shown to increase motivation for self-improvement in the domain of witnessed excellence (e.g., sporting performance), but also a more general motivation to work towards achieving one's own life goals. Associated behaviours Behaviours concerning the self Relation to attainability įollowing from the view that admiration's function is learning and self-improvement, some authors have proposed that admiration will only activate when we believe improvement is possible for us, however one empirical study has suggested the opposite, that admiration is akin to passive contemplation of another's superiority, while envy is the motivating emotion which activates when a better performance is attainable to us. ![]() Admiration is the emotion that facilitates learning in social groups. Learning of skills has been so important to our evolution that we have come to feel positively about talented or skillful people, in order to approach them and copy their actions. He contrasts admiration with envy (an other-focused contrastive emotion), proposing that envy leads us to feel frustrated about the competence of others, while admiration is uplifting and motivating. Richard Smith categorises admiration as an other-focused assimilative emotion, leading people to aspire to be like (assimilate to) those they admire. Other authors term both these emotions as admiration, distinguishing between admiration for skill and admiration for virtue. They propose that admiration is the emotion we feel towards non-moral excellence (i.e., witnessing an act of excellent skill), while elevation is the emotion we feel towards moral excellence (i.e., witnessing someone perform an act of exceeding virtue). Sara Algoe and Jonathan Haidt include admiration in the category of other-praising emotions, alongside awe, elevation, and gratitude. Admiration motivates self-improvement through learning from role-models. Admiration facilitates social learning in groups. ![]() Admiration by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1897Īdmiration is a social emotion felt by observing people of competence, talent, or skill exceeding standards. ![]()
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