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ChillsDB: A Gold Standard for Aesthetic Chills Stimuli.
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- Using chills-inducing music to augment self-transcendence, emotional breakthrough, and psychological insight during mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mapping the brain networks underlying creativity enhancement via aesthetic experience.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
- 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
- Aesthetic chills mitigate maladaptive cognition in depression.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- ChillsDB 2.0: Individual Differences in Aesthetic Chills Among 2,900+ Southern California Participants.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Editorial: Possible applications of neuroaesthetics to normal and pathological behaviour.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Aesthetic chills cause an emotional drift in valence and arousal.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
We introduce ChillsDB the first validated database of audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in a US population. To discover chills stimuli "in the wild", we devised a bottom-up, ecologically-valid method consisting in searching for mentions of the emotion' somatic markers in user comments throughout social media platforms (YouTube and Reddit). We successfully captured 204 chills-eliciting videos of three categories: music, film, and speech. We then tested the top 50 videos in the database on 600+ participants and validated a gold standard of 10 stimuli with a 0.9 probability of generating chills. All ChillsDB tools and data are fully available on GitHub for researchers to be able to contribute and perform further analysis.
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