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On the etiology of aesthetic chills: a behavioral genetic study.
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- Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Inferring Cinematic Aesthetic Biases from the Statistics of Early Movies.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The neurobiology of aesthetic chills: How bodily sensations shape emotional experiences.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Predicting individual differences in peak emotional response.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Genetic effects on variability in visual aesthetic evaluations are partially shared across visual domains.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Literary tastes are as heritable as other human phenotypes: Evidence from twins' library borrowing.PloS one · 2024Article
- An Analysis of Antinuclear Thought in William Golding's Literary Works from the Perspective of Ecoenvironmental Psychology: Taking "Lord of the Flies" as an Example.Journal of environmental and public health · 2022Review
- Statistical image properties predict aesthetic ratings in abstract paintings created by neural style transfer.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Does Amount of Information Support Aesthetic Values?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Aesthetic chills, broadly defined as a somatic marker of peak emotional-hedonic responses, are experienced by individuals across a variety of human cultures. Yet individuals vary widely in the propensity of feeling them. These individual differences have been studied in relation to demographics, personality, and neurobiological and physiological factors, but no study to date has explored the genetic etiological sources of variation. To partition genetic and environmental sources of variation in the propensity of feeling aesthetic chills, we fitted a biometrical genetic model to data from 14,127 twins (from 8995 pairs), collected by the Netherlands Twin Register. Both genetic and unique environmental factors accounted for variance in aesthetic chills, with heritability estimated at 0.36 ([0.33, 0.39] 95% CI). We found females more prone than males to report feeling aesthetic chills. However, a test for genotype x sex interaction did not show evidence that heritability differs between sexes. We thus show that the propensity of feeling aesthetic chills is not shaped by nurture alone, but it also reflects underlying genetic propensities.
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