Most people report feeling chills--experienced as goose bumps, shivers down the spine, or hair standing on end--at least sometimes when listening to music, but a small minority of people say they've never had this experience. Past work indicates that personality, experience, and engagement in...
Researchers Emily Nusbaum and Paul Silvia of University of North Carolina at Greensboro asked students about how often they felt chills down their spine, got goose bumps, or felt like their hair was standing on end while listening to music. They also measured their experience with music, and fi...
Chills are one form of peak emotional responses that have been investigated mainly in the domain of music and emotion (for a review, see refs6and7). The chills refer to a set of bodily sensations, such as shivers or goose bumps. Chills occur not only in response to cold air or illness...
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Most people report that listening to music sometimes creates chills—feeling goose bumps and shivers on the neck, scalp, and spine—but some people seem to never experience them. The present research examined who tends to experience music-induced chills and why. A sample of young adults completed...
Music listening is often accompanied by the experience of emotions, sometimes even by so-called "strong experiences of music" (SEMs). SEMs can include such pleasurable reactions as shivers down the spine or goose pimples, which are referred to as "chills". In the present study, the role of...
The researchers found that the brains of individuals who occasionally feel a chill while listening to music were wired differently than the control subjects. They had more nerve fibers connecting auditory cortex, the part of the brain that processes sound, to their anterior insular cortex, a...
1.1. Music chills Strong affective experiences when listening to music is a common aesthetic phenomenon, characterized by positive feelings that tend to reach peak intensity at precise moments during musical listening of familiar, especially favorite, musical pieces. What seems common to the various des...
The positive effects and satisfaction created by listening to music are often highlighted in people's everyday experiences as well as in music psychology research. However, not all of the feelings aroused by music are pleasant ones. A collaborative study between researchers from the universities of...
Music can make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills(冷), shake your body, or-as anyone who has ever attended an evening performance at the concert knows too well-put you to sleep. New research from scientists around the world says that there's a good reason for this, and now yo...