Steering Clear of Highway Warfare Excerpts of a new book on road rage and aggressive driving. Ten self-care techniques to deal with stress. Lucas and Diener reported that judgments of well-being are based primarily on the frequency of pleasant affect, and less so on the intensity of affect. The EQ Factor New brain research suggests that emotions, not IQ, may be the true measure of human intelligence. The previously unstudied emotion of elevation is described.
Elevation appears to be the opposite of social disgust.
It is triggered by witnessing acts of human moral beauty or virtue. Elevation involves a warm or glowing feeling in the chest, and it makes people want to become morally better themselves.