Oh, the things you don’t know: awe promotes awareness of knowledge gaps and science interest
Awe is described as an a “epistemic emotion” because it is hypothesised to make gaps in one’s knowledge salient. However, no empirical evidence for this yet exists. Awe is also hypothesised to be an antecedent to interest in science because science is one way to fill those knowledge gaps. Results fr...
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Routledge
2019
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