ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
Defining Transformative Experiences: A Conceptual Analysis.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Aesthetic experiences and their transformative power: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Comparing psychedelic and meditation experience reports with natural language processing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Out-of-body experiences: interpretations through the eyes of those who live them.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The spread of mind: psychological contagion in theory and critique.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Measuring transformative virtual reality experiences in children's drawings.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Examining posttraumatic growth among Turkish family caregivers of cancer patients.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Unveiling the underlying structure of awe in virtual reality and in autobiographical recall: an exploratory study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cross-validation of the ego dissolution scale: implications for studying psychedelics.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Awe promotes moral expansivenessFrontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Virtual Reality for Awe and Imagination.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Liminal design: A conceptual framework and three-step approach for developing technology that delivers transcendence and deeper experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The concept of transformative experience (TE) has been widely explored by several disciplines from philosophy to neurobiology, and in different domains, from the spiritual to the educational one. This attitude has engendered heterogeneous models to explain this phenomenon. However, a consistent and clear understanding of this construct remains elusive. The aim of this work is to provide an initial comprehensive interdisciplinary, cross-domain, up-to-date, and integrated overview on the concept of TEs. Firstly, all the models and theories on TEs were reviewed to extract and analyze TEs' main components emerging from different disciplines. Then, this preliminary analysis was integrated with an in-depth examination of redundancies and particularities across domains and disciplines, to provide an integrated theoretical framework of TEs and a preliminary interdisciplinary operational definition of TEs. This examination, in turn, can help organize current research and theories, thus providing suggestions for operationalizing TEs as well as encouraging new interdisciplinary research endeavors.
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