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Mapping the Anatomy of Inspiration: Identifying and Analyzing Elicitors of Self-Transcendent Emotions in Media

Mon, June 13, 9:30 to 10:45, Fukuoka Hilton, Argos C

Abstract

Social media sites and other online outlets routinely feature videos and stories that claim to be “inspiring,” “heart breaking,” “moving,” and “touching.” And, without a doubt, most of us have encountered such content and experienced such reactions. But why? What about this content—which might range from a cat video to a TED talk, from an advertisement to a eulogy—leads to these emotional responses? In this presentation, we discuss our efforts to map the anatomy of inspiring media content by developing a content-coding strategy to define and operationalize elicitors of self-transcendent emotions. Our aim is to share an analytic approach that we think can be applied across media genres, platforms, and (to some extent) cultural contexts.

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