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elevation2 CONSTRUCTSST elevationPARDEE · ST ELEVATIONElevation (emotion)HAIDT · MORAL EMOTION

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Cardiology

A raised ST segment on the ECG

On an electrocardiogram, ST elevation is a rise of the ST segment, the stretch of the tracing between the heart's electrical activation and its recovery, above the baseline. Pardee's 1920 paper first described this raised segment as a sign of blocked coronary blood flow, and Sgarbossa and colleagues' 1996 study refined how to read it when a bundle-branch block distorts the tracing. The referent is a measured shift in an electrical recording of the heart, reported in millimetres above baseline, and it is unrelated to a scaled drawing of an object or an uplifting moral feeling.[1][2]

Unit
A rise of the ST segment above baseline, in millimetres
Recovery means
The segment returns toward baseline as blood flow to the heart muscle is restored or the injury resolves
Measured by
Read from a 12-lead ECG as millimetres of ST-segment displacement above the isoelectric baseline

Psychology

The uplifting emotion at witnessed moral beauty

In psychology, elevation is the warm, uplifting feeling a person has on witnessing an act of moral beauty, kindness, or virtue, often felt in the chest and paired with a wish to become better oneself. Haidt's 2000 paper named and described this positive emotion, and Algoe and Haidt's 2009 study grouped it with gratitude and admiration as emotions that respond to the excellence of other people. The referent is a felt emotional state, measured through self-report and bodily response, and it bears no relation to a drawing projected onto a vertical plane or a raised segment on a heart tracing.[3][4]

Unit
A momentary felt emotional state in one person
Recovery means
The feeling fades as attention moves away from the act that prompted it
Measured by
Assessed by self-report scales, reports of bodily feeling, and behavioural measures of prosocial motivation

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References

  1. Pardee, H. E. B. (1920). An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction. Archives of Internal Medicine, 26(2), 244–257. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1920.00100020113007
  2. Sgarbossa, E. B., Pinski, S. L., Barbagelata, A., et al. (1996). Electrocardiographic diagnosis of evolving acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle-branch block. New England Journal of Medicine, 334(8), 481–487. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199602223340801
  3. Haidt, J. (2000). The positive emotion of elevation. Prevention & Treatment, 3(1), Article 3c. https://doi.org/10.1037/1522-3736.3.1.33c
  4. Algoe, S. B., & Haidt, J. (2009). Witnessing excellence in action: The "other-praising" emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4(2), 105–127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760802650519

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