Kama muta

GLOSSARY

A positive emotion experienced within intense social and community sharing. A feeling of being “moved by love” that is associated with physiological signatures such as warmth in the chest, tears, feeling choked up, and motivates commitment to further sharing.

Reference:

Fiske, A. P., Seibt, B., & Schubert, T. (2019). The sudden devotion emotion: Kama muta and the cultural practices whose function is to evoke it. Emotion Review, 11(1), 74-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917723167