Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages
Zickfeld, Schubert, Seibt and colleagues, Emotion 19(3), 2019, 402-424. Kama muta proposed as a positive, socially relational emotion triggered by sudden intensification of communal sharing; typically with warmth in the chest, moist eyes or tears, chills and a lump in the throat. Surveys with 3,542 participants in 19 countries and 15 languages supported the construct, with some cross-cultural variation.
Zickfeld, Schubert, Seibt and colleagues, Emotion 19(3), 2019, 402-424. Kama muta proposed as a positive, socially relational emotion triggered by sudden intensification of communal sharing; typically with warmth in the chest, moist eyes or tears, chills and a lump in the throat. Surveys with 3,542 participants in 19 countries and 15 languages supported the construct, with some cross-cultural variation.
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Zickfeld, J. H., Schubert, T. W., Seibt, B., et al. (2019). Kama muta: Conceptualizing and measuring the experience often labelled being moved across 19 nations and 15 languages. Emotion, 19(3), 402-424. doi:10.1037/emo0000450 https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000450