Awe

When paintings decorate the walls: An, Donghwy, and Nara Youn. “The Inspirational Power of Arts on Creativity.” Journal of Business Research 85 (2018): 467–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.025. Antal, Ariane B., and Ilana N. Bitran. “Discovering the Meaningfulness of Art in Organizations.” Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik 4, no. 2 (2018): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.14361/zkmm-2018-0203.

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One impressive study: Van de Vyver, Julie, and Dominic Abrams. “The Arts as a Catalyst for Human Prosociality and Cooperation.”

Social Psychological and Personality Science 9, no. 6 (2018): 664–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617720275.

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One recent study from Denmark: Nielsen, Stine L., Lars B. Fich, Kirsten K. Roessler, and Michael F. Mullins. “How Do Patients Actually Experience and Use Art in Hospitals? The Significance of Interaction: A User-Oriented Experimental Case Study.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being 12, no. 1 (2017): 1267343. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2016.1267343.

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In cities judged from photos:

Seresinhe, Chanuki I., Tobias Preis, and Helen S. Moat. “Quantifying the Impact of Scenic Environments on Health.” Scientific Reports 5 (2015): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16899.

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cities with pathways for walking: Jackson, Laura. “The Relationship of Urban Design to Human Health and Condition.” Landscape and Urban Planning 64 (2003): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00230-X.

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Simply being near cathedrals

: Shariff, Azim F., Aiyana K. Willard, Teresa Andersen, and Ara Norenzayan. “Religious Priming: A Metanalysis with a Focus on Prosociality.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 20 (2016): 27–48. One study from Chile found that people were more cooperative with a stranger when in a chapel than when in a lecture hall. The obvious interpretation has to do with the religious significance of a chapel and its priming people to be kinder. It’s also plausible, though, that these effects on saintly tendencies had to do with feelings of awe evoked by the design of the chapel. Ahmed, Ali, and Osvaldo Salas. “Religious Context and Prosociality: An Experimental Study from Valparaíso, Chile.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52, no. 3 (2013): 627–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12045.

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box we put prisoners in: Crile, Susan. Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2007.

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In relevant studies

: Mocaiber, Izabela, Mirtes G. Pereira, Fatima S. Erthal, Walter Machado-Pinheiro, Isabel A. David, Mauricio Cagy, Eliane Volchan, and Leticia de Oliveira. “Fact or Fiction? An Event-Related Potential Study of Implicit Emotion Regulation.” Neuroscience Letters 476, no. 2 (2010): 84–88. In another study, anger-inducing treatment (harassment) was framed as a live theater performance or as an aptitude test developed by a recruitment firm. When viewing the same social event as an act of theater, participants showed attenuated peripheral physiological reactions. Wagner, Valentin, Julian Klein, Julian Hanich, Mira Shah, Winfried Menninghaus, and Thomas Jacobsen. “Anger Framed: A Field Study on Emotion, Pleasure, and Art.” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 10, no. 2 (2016): 134–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000029.

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we find art that progresses: Stamkou, Eftychia, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Astrid C. Homan. “The Art of Influence: When and Why Deviant Artists Gain Impact.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 115, no. 2 (2018): 276–303. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000131.

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