Thrills in response to music and other stimuli

Goldstein, Avram

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“…It is interesting to note that many more studies than in the speech area have been devoted to examining the induction of emotional states via music (70)(71)(72)(73)(74). This has become a particularly important issue in the psychology of emotion, where researchers are always in search of ethical methods to induce emotional states in the laboratory (75).…”

Section: Emotion Expression In Vocal Musicmentioning

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Expression of emotion in voice and music

1995

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Summary: Vocal communication of emotion is biologically adaptive for socially living species and has therefore evolved in a phylogenetically continuous manner. Human affect bursts or interjections can be considered close parallels to animal affect vocalizations. The development of speech, unique to the human species, has relied on the voice as a carrier signal, and thus emotion effects on the voice become audible during speech. This article reviews (a) the evidence on listeners' ability to accurately identify a speaker's emotion from voice cues alone, (b) the research efforts trying to isolate the acoustic features that determine listener judgments, and (c) the findings on actual acoustic concomitants of a speaker's emotional state (real or portrayed by actors). Finally, based on speculations about the joint origin of speech and vocal music in nonlinguistic affect vocalizations, similarities of emotion expression in speech and music are discussed.

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Section: Emotion Expression In Vocal Musicmentioning

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Expression of emotion in voice and music

1995

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“…Music also evokes physical responses that accompany emotions such as tears, tingles down the spine (or "chills"), and changes in heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and skin conductance levels (Goldstein, 1980;Krumhansl, 1997;Panksepp, 1995;Sloboda, 1991Sloboda, , 1992Thayer & Levenson, 1983). Adults report that they frequently listen to music in order to change their emotional state (Sloboda, 1992), which implies that these physiological changes are accompanied by changes in phenomenological experience.…”

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Decoding speech prosody: Do music lessons help?

Thompson¹,

Schellenberg²,

Husain³

2004

Emotion

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Three experiments revealed that music lessons promote sensitivity to emotions conveyed by speech prosody. After hearing semantically neutral utterances spoken with emotional (i.e., happy, sad, fearful, or angry) prosody, or tone sequences that mimicked the utterances' prosody, participants identified the emotion conveyed. In Experiment 1 (n ‫ס‬ 20), musically trained adults performed better than untrained adults. In Experiment 2 (n ‫ס‬ 56), musically trained adults outperformed untrained adults at identifying sadness, fear, or neutral emotion. In Experiment 3 (n ‫ס‬ 43), 6-year-olds were tested after being randomly assigned to 1 year of keyboard, vocal, drama, or no lessons. The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear.

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“…Such affective responses to the arts appear to be common; Sloboda (1991) reported that 90% of respondents in a survey sample experienced shivers down the spine and 62% reported experiencing goose bumps while listening to music during the previous five years. Although music is usually the most frequent elicitor of aesthetic responses, it has been shown that other domains of the arts such as film, visual art, and literature, can also elicit profound aesthetic experiences (Goldstein, 1980;Huron & Margulis, 2010). Researchers in the field of emotion and aesthetics have begun to elucidate the characteristics of intense responses to art.…”

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The Observing Facet of Trait Mindfulness Predicts Frequency of Aesthetic Experiences Evoked by the Arts

Harrison

Clark

2016

Mindfulness

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Conflict of interest:Neil R. Harrison declares that he has no conflict of interest.Dan P.A. Clark declares that he has no conflict of interest.Trait mindfulness predicts frequency of aesthetic experiences 2 Abstract Mindfulness can foster an enhanced sensitivity to internal and external impressions, which could result in heightened subjective responses to works of art. So far though, very little is known about the connection between mindfulness and aesthetic responses to the arts, therefore the current study aimed to investigate whether there was an association between trait mindfulness and how often people report aesthetic experiences. We hypothesized that the Observing facet of mindfulness would positively predict the self-reported frequency of aesthetic experiences (aesthetic chills, feeling touched, and absorption). Participants in an online study (N = 207) completed the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire, an Aesthetic Experiences scale in relation to the area of the arts a participant encountered most frequently in their daily life, and a measure of aesthetic expertise. Controlling for aesthetic expertise and sex, linear regression revealed that the Observing facet of mindfulness was positively associated with aesthetic experience, as predicted. Non-reactivity positively predicted aesthetic experience, while Non-judging was negatively associated with aesthetic experience. Potential explanations for the association between these three facets of trait mindfulness and aesthetic responses are discussed in relation to information-processing models of aesthetic experience. The findings provide preliminary support for the premise that levels of dispositional mindfulness are associated with the frequency of intense emotional responses to the arts, and recommendations for further research studies are outlined.Trait mindfulness predicts frequency of aesthetic experiences 3

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Thrills in response to music and other stimuli

Cited by 368 publications

References 8 publications

Expression of emotion in voice and music

Expression of emotion in voice and music

Decoding speech prosody: Do music lessons help?

The Observing Facet of Trait Mindfulness Predicts Frequency of Aesthetic Experiences Evoked by the Arts

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