Publications by authors named "R Diessner"
Human needs, and their fulfillment, are the building blocks of human development, personality, and well-being. However, no published paper in the field of psychology has focused on exploring aesthetic needs. Maslow (1986) gave the topic little more than a paragraph; and Dweck [1], in her elegant Unified Theory of Motivation, Personality, and Development, never mentions aesthetic needs.
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- Moral elevation is a strong emotional response to witnessing others do good deeds, but individual differences, like personality traits, affect how people experience this emotion and how it influences their behavior in prosocial situations.
- The study tested how traits like Engagement with Moral Beauty, Need for Cognition, Honesty-Humility, and Agreeableness vs. Anger impact the experience of elevation and subsequent prosocial behaviors using economic games with college students.
- Results showed that state elevation led to increased prosocial behavior in the dictator game, particularly influenced by Engagement with Moral Beauty and Need for Cognition, but personality traits did not affect susceptibility to elevation itself.
Does working on developing character strengths and relative character weaknesses cause lower life satisfaction than working on developing character strengths only? The present study provides a preliminary answer. After 76 college students completed the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (C. Peterson & M.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Engagement With Beauty Scale (EBS), designed from the aesthetics of I. Kant (1790/1987), G. W.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFurther validation of the gratitude, resentment, and appreciation test (GRAT).
J Soc Psychol
August 2007
The authors conducted this study to further validate the revised short form of the Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test by investigating the relationship between GRAT-measured gratitude and two other constructs: (a) spiritual transcendence and (b) materialism. As predicted, both the GRAT and its subscales correlated positively with a measure of spiritual transcendence and negatively with a measure of materialism.
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