Outputs (5)

The Human Affectome (2023)
Journal Article
Schiller, D., Yu, A. N., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., Eslinger, P. J., Frewen, P., Kemp, A. H., Pace-Schott, E. F., Raber, J., Silton, R. L., Stefanova, E., Williams, J. H., Abe, N., Aghajani, M., Albrecht, F., Alexander, R., Anders, S., Aragón, O. R., …Lowe, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, Article 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450

Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills (2021)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., & Eerola, T. (2023). Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(2), 242-258. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000421

It is unclear how music elicits chills (emotional experiences accompanied by goosebumps, shivers, and tingling sensations), and what psychological mechanisms underlie the response. Crucially, current explanations of chills struggle to encapsulate the... Read More about Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.

Distinct Varieties of Aesthetic Chills in Response to Multimedia (2019)
Journal Article
Bannister, S. (2019). Distinct Varieties of Aesthetic Chills in Response to Multimedia. PLoS ONE, 14(11), Article e0224974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224974

The experience of aesthetic chills, often defined as a subjective response accompanied by goosebumps, shivers and tingling sensations, is a phenomenon often utilized to indicate moments of peak pleasure and emotional arousal in psychological research... Read More about Distinct Varieties of Aesthetic Chills in Response to Multimedia.

Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response (2018)
Journal Article
Bannister, S., & Eerola, T. (2018). Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 2046. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02046

Research on musical chills has linked the response to multiple musical features; however, there exists no study that has attempted to manipulate musical stimuli to enable causal inferences, meaning current understanding is based mainly on correlation... Read More about Suppressing the Chills: Effects of Musical Manipulation on the Chills Response.

A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music (2018)
Journal Article
Bannister, S. (2020). A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music. Psychology of Music, 48(2), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618798024

Musically induced chills, an emotional response accompanied by gooseflesh, shivers and tingling sensations, are an intriguing aesthetic phenomenon. Although chills have been linked to musical features, personality traits and listening contexts, there... Read More about A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music.