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elevation  

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  • Definition Novels, films, religious texts, and popular books often provoke a feeling in the viewer of being moved by the moral excellence of another person. Drawing upon Thomas Jefferson's own analysis of this emotion, Jonathan Haidt has called this emotion elevation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Elevation]

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