Our online study about #misophonia, #ASMR, musical #chills aka #frisson, and #musicality reactions in the general population is now accepted for a special issue at Phil Trans B on "Sensing and Feeling"! Thanks especially to editors Hirohito Kondo and Brian Moore for putting together such an exciting topic!
See link for updated pre-print on OSF.
We found a lot of things but here a few highlights:
Misophonia reactions to videos seem to be pretty common, even in people who wouldn't be diagnosed with "misophonia" The Disorder.
People who have a lot misophonia reactions to videos also have a lot of ASMR and chills reactions.
A self-report measure of general musicality does not correlate with misophonia, ASMR, or chills reactions. But stay tuned because we're doing an in person study now with both adults and kids using a wider set of music perception tasks.
This topic was considered briefly as a ThursdayFiveList prompt, but was agreed not to post there. I'm still interested in what you have. #Frisson, or psychogenic shivers, or aesthetic chills - your body's pleasurable emotional response to music: tingling, enlargened pupils, retracted testicles, erect nipples, and erect..follicles, aka goosebumps.
You can find some of my favourite frisson-inducing songs below, curious about yours 👇
The song that does it for me every time is Burma Shave by Tom Waits - just a simple piano and vocals, super evocative lyrics that paint a picture and then a bit at the end that sends shivers up my spine