Through a combination of laboratory experiments and surveys spanning 26 countries, Keltner and colleagues have since found that awe comes in many guises: as well as being prompted by nature, the people in their studies described awe in encounters with life and death, great music, visual design, or in moments of spirituality, epiphany or moral beauty. Not everyone experienced awe in the same way, and there were cultural differences in how awe was mediated – what Keltner calls "flavourings" – but the feeling of being overwhelmed by something grander than the self was a common thread.