Pan and Jiang build on previously conducted research to identify implications of feeling awed; design can induce awe in multiple ways, for example via workmanship or material use. Pan and Jiang probed “global self-continuity (GSC), a sense of connectedness among past, present, and future selves . . . [and] examined the relationship between awe and GSC. . . . We found awe positively associated with . . . and predicted . . . GSC.”
Xinyu Pan and Tonglin Jiang. 2023. “Awe Fosters Global Self-Continuity: The Mediating Effect of Global Processing and Narrative.” Emotion, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1618-1632, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001187