Discover Your Awe Profile
Awe is a complex emotion characterized by a sense of vastness and wonder. This assessment will help you understand the different dimensions of your awe experiences.
What is Awe?
Awe is the feeling we experience when encountering something vast—whether in physical scale, beauty, ability, virtue, or spiritual depth—that challenges our existing understanding of the world. It can be triggered by nature, art, music, human achievement, or profound ideas.
About This Assessment
This assessment uses the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S), a validated psychometric tool developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. The AWE-S measures six key dimensions of awe experiences:
- Altered Time Perception – Time slowing or changing
- Self-Diminishment – Sense of self shrinking
- Connectedness – Oneness with all things
- Perceived Vastness – Presence of something grand
- Physical Sensations – Goosebumps, chills, jaw drop
- Need for Accommodation – Challenged to comprehend
What to Expect
The assessment takes approximately 10-15 minutes and includes:
- Optional demographic information
- Writing about a recent awe experience (2-3 paragraphs)
- Rating that experience on 30 statements (1-7 scale)
- Viewing your personalized awe profile
Privacy: Your responses are anonymous and used only for research purposes. Your written experience may be shared (anonymously) to help others discover awe.