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The volunteers reported significant improvements in their “personal well-being, life satisfaction and positive behavior change,” changes that were confirmed by their family members and friends. In this and other ways, Hofmann’s discovery helped to launch modern brain science in the 1950s. McNeil, Kaiping Peng, and Dacher Keltner. “Awe, the Diminished Self, and Collective Engagement: Universals and Cultural Variations in the Small Self.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113, no. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the John S. and James L.