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Aesthetically pleasing music triggers piloerection or goosebumps through emotional neurochemistry

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Aesthetically pleasing music frequently triggers physiological responses like piloerection, commonly known as chills or goosebumps, mediated by emotional processing and reward networks in the brain.

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The retrieved papers consistently demonstrate that emotionally moving or aesthetically pleasing music triggers physiological manifestations such as piloerection (frisson/chills), and that these experiences are grounded in neurochemical and neural reward circuitry correlates. None of the papers refute this relationship, and several explicitly investigate the physiological, emotional, and neural basis of aesthetic chills.

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Listening To Music As A Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, And Psychoacoustical Correlates Of Chills And Strong Emotions
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Oliver Grewe, Frederik Nagel, Reinhard Kopiez, Eckart Altenmüller. Listening To Music As A Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, And Psychoacoustical Correlates Of Chills And Strong Emotions. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2007.24.3.297

Explores physiological and emotional correlates of music-induced chills and strong emotions.

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Getting aesthetic chills from music: The connection between openness to experience and frisson
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Mitchell C. Colver, Amani El-Alayli. Getting aesthetic chills from music: The connection between openness to experience and frisson. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735615572358

Investigates the connection between personality traits like openness and the physiological measurement of musical frisson or chills.

Music-Evoked Emotions-Current Studies.
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Schaefer HE. Music-Evoked Emotions-Current Studies.. 2017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00600

Discusses music-evoked emotions, neuroendocrine markers, and goosebump development (piloerection) as dynamic emotional responses.

A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music
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Scott Bannister. A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618798024

Analyzes musically induced chills accompanied by gooseflesh and shivers as aesthetic emotional phenomena.

Individual differences in aesthetic engagement are reflected in resting-state fMRI connectivity: Implications for stress resilience.
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Williams PG, Johnson KT, Curtis BJ, King JB, Anderson JS. Individual differences in aesthetic engagement are reflected in resting-state fMRI connectivity: Implications for stress resilience.. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.042

Examines individual differences in aesthetic engagement and reported proneness to aesthetic chills through neural connectivity.

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first checked01 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8901 Aug 2026
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