Awe is a potent sensation, one that many of us recognize instinctively, but it’s also a bit of a mongrel, an amalgam of seemingly conflicting feelings. Though philosophers and others have acknowledged the power of awe for thousands of years, modern psychologists can’t even agree on whether awe qualifies as an emotion: some say it’s just a variant of better-known emotions such as surprise or admiration, or that it involves more cognition than feeling.
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