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Elevation: A review of scholarship on a moral and other-praising emotion

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Pages 628-638 | Received 06 Dec 2015, Accepted 08 Nov 2016, Published online: 20 Dec 2016

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Ion Yarritu. (2023) Moral elevation affects the causal attributions about others’ behavior. The Journal of Positive Psychology 0:0, pages 1-12.
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Tim Lomas. (2019) The spatial contours of wellbeing: A content analysis of metaphor in academic discourse. The Journal of Positive Psychology 14:3, pages 362-376.
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Laura E. Graham, Andrew L. Thomson, Jeanne Nakamura, Irene A. Brandt & Jason T. Siegel. (2019) Finding a family: A categorization of enjoyable emotions. The Journal of Positive Psychology 14:2, pages 206-229.
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