Press

2020 

NZZ piece by Alan: Kama Muta: Ein rätselhaftes Gefühl bewegt die Welt

piece on wellandgood.com: Meet Kama Muta, the Global, Cross-Cultural Mood of Being Joyfully Emotional

Alan writing in Aeon: Kama muta: a new term for that warm, fuzzy feeling we all get

2019

Story in Discover on Why Babies Are So Cute — And Why We React the Way We Do mentioning work on kama muta and quoting Kamilla and Alan

08.09 – Why do we cry? Episode on human emotional crying featuring kama muta by Vox. 

2018

15.12 – Aftenposten piece on Kama Muta with interviews by Thomas Schubert and Beate Seibt [Norwegian]

07.04 – CNN piece on being moved to tears by the pope, with discussion of elevation, kama muta, and gratitude

12.02 Radio interview with Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes discussing emotional responses to cuteness on NRK Radio Rogaland (starts at 02:15) [Norwegian]

08.02 Short TV segment on kama muta and cute animals with Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes on Dagsrevyen at NRK (starts at 24:47) [Norwegian]

08.02 Radio interview with Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes on Østlandssendingen (starts at 1:46:03) [Norwegian]

08.02 Article on cute animals and interview with Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes on NRK.no [Norwegian]

03.02 Interview with Johanna K. Blomster and Janis H. Zickfeld on Kama Muta on khrono.no [Norwegian]

2017

09.11 Interview with Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes on being moved by cuteness [Norwegian]

16.05 Short article on being moved with regard to Norway’s national holiday and moving advertisements on NRK [Norwegian]

16.05. Radio interview on Norgesglasset with Janis H. Zickfeld on being moved [Norwegian]

11.05 Interview with Thomas W. Schubert on being moved in Apollon [Norwegian]

Essay on kama muta by Nick Haslam

2016

25.02 Article featuring Facebook, Taylor Swift and Kama Muta on NRK [Norwegian]

25.02 Radio feature on kama muta including an interview with Alan P. Fiske [Norwegian]

2015

22.06. Radio interview on NRK Her og nå with Janis H. Zickfeld on being moved [Norwegian]