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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Individual emotional responses to stimuli vary significantly.
  • Understanding the factors behind aesthetic chills is crucial for psychological research.
  • Previous studies lacked control over stimuli and individual differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and disentangle the psychological and sociocultural factors influencing individual variations in aesthetic chills.
  • To develop a predictive model for the occurrence and intensity of aesthetic chills.
  • To explore the interplay of personality traits, emotional states, and demographics in subjective experiences.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized mass data mining of social media to create a database of chills-evoking stimuli.
  • Employed machine learning (LASSO, SVM) and multilevel modeling.
  • Analyzed data from over 2,900 participants to examine demographic, trait, and state factors.

Main Results:

  • Identified age, sex, pre-exposure arousal, predisposition to Kama Muta (KAMF), and absorption (MODTAS) as key predictors of aesthetic chills.
  • Achieved 73.5% accuracy in predicting the occurrence of chills.
  • Explained 48% of the variance in chills intensity.

Conclusions:

  • A combination of demographic, psychological trait, and state factors significantly influences aesthetic chills.
  • The novel methodology enhances experimental control and reduces unexplained variability in subjective phenomena.
  • Sociocultural factors, psychological traits, and contextual states interact to shape aesthetic chills.