Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner

Awe is good for reduced inflammation, elevated vagal tone, reduced long COVID symptoms. We have people with long COVID, just a minute of awe a day, reduced long COVID symptoms. It's good news, right? And and there's so much science on it that I just now I think medical doctors are starting to think like, I'm going to prescribe nature, I'll prescribe music through awe, right, as a mechanism. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Daker Keltner. Dr. Daker Keltner is a professor of psychology and the co-director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Daker is an expert in the science of emotions and their role in social dynamics and bonding. Today we discuss his fascinating work on the science of emotions, including the role of teasing in social bonding, the role of embarrassment in social bonding, and his fascinating work on awe and the things that lead to awe. As he describes, awe is not elusive. It happens when we shift our perception from a very small scale to a very large scale or back again. such as when we suddenly reach a new horizon or visual vista.

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