This empirical study examines how philosophical work on the sublime relates to contemporary psychological work on awe. We operationalized several aspects of the sublime drawing from prominent philosophical theories and analyzed them in relation to three different measures of awe: the modified Differential Emotions Scale (mDES), the awe sub-scale of the Dispositional Positive Emotion Scale (DPES), and the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S). We carried out an Exploratory Factor Analysis on our items on the sublime. We found high correlations between these items and the measures of awe, especially with the self-loss and connectedness dimensions of the AWE-S. By operationalizing aspects of the sublime drawn from influential philosophical theories and comparing them with psychological measures of awe, we find a large degree of overlap between awe and the sublime, suggesting that these two literatures could inform one another.

这项实证研究考察了崇高的哲学工作与敬畏的当代心理学工作之间的关系。我们从著名的哲学理论中提取了崇高的几个方面，并对它们与三种不同的敬畏度进行了分析：修正的差异情感量表（mDES），性格积极情绪量表（DPES）的敬畏子量表和敬畏经验量表（AWE-S）。我们对升华的物品进行了探索性因素分析。我们发现这些项目与敬畏程度之间存在高度相关性，尤其是与AWE-S的自我损失和联系维度有关。通过将有影响力的哲学理论中崇高的方面付诸实践，并将其与敬畏的心理方法进行比较，