“It Feels Good to Be Measured”: Clinical Role-Play, Walker Percy, and the Tingles

Ahuja, Nitin K.

doi:10.1353/pbm.2013.0022

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“…ASMR is already being unintentionally stimulated in clinical settings due to the personal attention, light touch, gentle vocals, and caring behaviors of clinicians. 28 The potential clinical benefits of purposely stimulating ASMR as part of a treatment plan are not currently known. Recorded ASMR triggers (e.g., video and audio files) or in-person ASMR triggers (e.g., light touch and personal attention) could be tested as a co-treatment or as an alternative treatment to current evidence-based therapies.…”

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An fMRI investigation of the neural correlates underlying the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)

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Introduction: The "autonomous sensory meridian response" (ASMR) is a neologism used to describe an internal sensation of deep relaxation and pleasant head tingling which is often stimulated by gentle sounds, light touch, and personal attention. Methods: An fMRI-based methodology was employed to examine the brain activation of subjects prescreened for ASMR-receptivity (n=10) as they watched ASMR videos and identified specific moments of relaxation and tingling. Results: Subjects who experienced ASMR showed significant activation in regions associated with both reward (NAcc) and emotional arousal (dACC and Insula/IFG). Brain activation during ASMR showed similarities to patterns previously observed in musical frisson as well as affiliative behaviors. Conclusion: This is the first study to measure the activation of various brain regions during ASMR and these results may help to reveal the mechanistic underpinnings of this sensation.

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An fMRI investigation of the neural correlates underlying the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)

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“…Over the next few years, descriptions of ASMR proliferated in the media, with some journalists referring to the tingling phenomenology as “brain orgasms” (e.g., Beck, 2013 ). To date, little research has been published on the phenomenon; indeed, only five peer-reviewed papers have been published on ASMR (e.g., Ahuja, 2013 ; Andersen, 2015 ; Barratt and Davis, 2015 ; del Campo and Kehle, 2016 ; Smith et al, 2016 ), only two of which included empirical data Barratt and Davis, 2015 ; Smith et al, 2016 ). Due to a dearth of experimental research on the subject, our understanding of the formal descriptive parameters of ASMR is highly limited.…”

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An Examination of Personality Traits Associated with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

2017

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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a perceptual condition in which the presentation of particular audio-visual stimuli triggers intense, pleasurable tingling sensations in the head and neck regions, which may spread to the periphery of the body. These triggering stimuli are often socially intimate in nature, and usually involve repetition of movements and/or sounds (e.g., hearing whispering, watching someone brush her hair). Reports of ASMR experiences first appeared in online communities in 2010; since this time, these communities have expanded, with some groups consisting of over 100,000 members. However, despite the apparent prevalence of ASMR, there is currently no research on the personality characteristics that co-occur with this condition. In the current study, 290 individuals with ASMR and 290 matched controls completed the Big Five Personality Inventory (BFI; John et al., 1991); participants with ASMR also completed a questionnaire related to their ASMR phenomenology. Individuals with ASMR demonstrated significantly higher scores on Openness-to-Experience and Neuroticism, and significantly lower levels of Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness compared to matched controls. Further, ratings of subjective ASMR intensity in response to 14 common ASMR stimuli were positively correlated with the Openness-to-Experience and Neuroticism dimensions of the BFI. These results provide preliminary evidence that ASMR is associated with specific personality traits and suggest avenues for further investigation.

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“…In the mid-2000s, members of online forums began posting accounts of the sensations they experienced in response to certain sonic stimuli to find out if such responses were shared by others (Ahuja, 2013). In seeking to legitimate a phenomenon that is difficult to explain physiologically, the emergent ASMR community strove to ground their experience in scientific terms and empirical proof of its existence.…”

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Listening to consumption: Towards a sonic turn in consumer research

Patterson

Larsen

2018

Marketing Theory

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractIn seeking to orient consumer research towards the sonic, this paper has three objectives. First, to chart the emergence of the 'sonic turn' in the social sciences and, relatedly, to register the echoes of such a turn in consumer research. Second, to draw together the implications of this turn for the ontological, epistemological, and methodological foundations of consumer research as a culturallyframed social science. Third, to tease out the potential impact of the turn to sound in an intellectual context that remains relatively silent, by addressing the question: what does it mean to listen to consumption? We conclude that the sonic turn does not simply present a set of new objects for enquiry, but rather offers a fresh analytical lens that provides a non-linguistic means of appreciating consumption. Such a move opens up the space for new, alternative, and disruptive ways of thinking about and doing consumer research.

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“It Feels Good to Be Measured”: Clinical Role-Play, Walker Percy, and the Tingles

Cited by 33 publications

References 12 publications

An fMRI investigation of the neural correlates underlying the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)

An fMRI investigation of the neural correlates underlying the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)

An Examination of Personality Traits Associated with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

Listening to consumption: Towards a sonic turn in consumer research

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