Aesthetic Chills as a Universal Marker of Openness to Experience

By R. McCrae. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Shivers and Timbres (2011, methodology): “McCrae (2007) explored the role of openness to experience by analyzing the item–total correlations for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory Openness scale.”
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and frisson: Mindfully induced sensory phenomena that promote happiness (2016, background): “McCrae (2007) found that the tendency to feel chills in response to aesthetic experiences was the single best predictor of openness out of 188 items on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) of the Big Five personality traits.”
Openness to Experience (2014, background): “Yet even this very private experience is perceived by others who know the individual well (McCrae, 2007).”
Individual Differences in Music Reward Experiences (2013, background): “In this sense, McCrae (2007) reported that the ability to experience aesthetic chills, which are one of the physiological responses reported with pleasant music (Salimpoor et al., 2009), are specifically related to these two facets.”
Current Emotion Research in Music Psychology (2015, background): “Musicians are more likely than nonmusicians to experience the phenomenon (Sloboda, 1991; but see Grewe, Kopiez, & Altenmüller, 2009), and people who score high on openness-to-experience are more likely than other individuals (McCrae, 2007; Silvia & Nusbaum, 2011).”
Experimental evidence of the roles of music choice, social context, and listener personality in emotional reactions to music (2013, background): “…Openness to experience might play a particular role with regard to aesthetic experiences: While other traits (e.g., extraversion, neuroticism) are associated with the overall experience of specific emotions, Openness to experience involves an overall sensitivity to art and beauty (McCrae, 2007).”
Chills in different sensory domains: Frisson elicited by acoustical, visual, tactile and gustatory stimuli (2011, background): “‘Chills’ (frisson manifested as goose bumps or shivers) have been used in an increasing number of studies as indicators of emotions in response to music (e.g., Craig, 2005; Guhn, Hamm, & Zentner, 2007; McCrae, 2007; Panksepp, 1995; Sloboda, 1991).”
Are the sources of interest the same for everyone? Using multilevel mixture models to explore individual differences in appraisal structures (2009, methodology): “We assessed openness to experience, the Big Five factor most associated with curiosity, exploration, and aesthetic interests (McCrae, 2007), with the IPIP Openness scale (Goldberg et al.”
Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. (2015, methodology): “Of the 12 NEO FFI openness to experience items, one is the “chill or wave of excitement” item analyzed by McCrae (2007).”
Emotional reactions to music in a nationally representative sample of Swedish adults (2011, background): “Openness was also related to several other variables: for instance, it was correlated with the experienced intensity of the musical emotion episodes – as might be expected (see McCrae, 2007) – and a greater variety of mechanisms.”
The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population (2014, background): “Openness to experience can be understood as the desire to broaden the range of experience in a lifetime and individuals scoring high on this construct tend to have a good awareness of the arts [98].”
On personality and piloerection: Individual differences in aesthetic chills and other unusual aesthetic experiences. (2011, background): “We sought to extend the small individual differences literature, which has to date explored only openness to experience ( McCrae, 2007), and to consider how aesthetic chills might relate to other kinds of unusual aesthetic states such as feeling touched, awe, and absorption.”
Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity (2008, background): “Openness to experience involves curiosity as a central component (see McCrae, 1996, 2007; Silvia, 2006b, chap.”
Discernment and creativity: How well can people identify their most creative ideas? (2008, background): “Many studies have found that openness is an important variable in art, aesthetics, and creativity (McCrae, 1987, 2007).”
The Chill Parameter: Goose Bumps and Shivers as Promising Measures in Emotion Research (2009, background): “Additionally, McCrae (2007) found chills to be one of the best definers of openness to experience, which is one of the five basic personality factors.”
Confusion and interest: The role of knowledge emotions in aesthetic experience. (2010, background): “Other unusual states are complicated human experiences that are hard to pin down, such as aesthetic chills (McCrae, 2007), the experience of beauty (Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008), and feelings of awe, thrills, and being moved (Konecni, 2005).”
The neuroaesthetics of music. (2013, background): “People who score highly on openness tend to experience chills to music (McCrae, 2007; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011), and this effect appears to be mediated by the degree to which people listen to and value music in their everyday lives (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011).”