How to Elicit STEs with Videos

How to Elicit STEs with Videos

On this page you’ll find materials for eliciting self-transcendent emotions in the lab by showing videos

Here are some of the videos we’ve used in research. Those available on youtube are linked.

I) ELEVATION

–The Music Teacher Video

II) ADMIRATION

–The Michael Jordan video…

III) AWE

A slideshow, on YouTube, of awe-provoking scenes from nature
(via Melanie Rudd at Stanford)

–This beautiful video (a Samsung commercial) that Rudd, Jennifer Aaker, and their colleagues at Stanford have used to evoke awe. 
 

IV) AMUSEMENT (USED AS A CONTROL CONDITION)

V) NEUTRAL (USED AS A CONTROL CONDITION)

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Here are some videos by Jason Silva (a self-described “epiphany addict”) and Marija Coneva, which are about STEs, particularly awe, and which might also be used to produce awe. See especially: Imagination , Ecstasy, Perceiving patternsYou are a RCVR. ..