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ChillsDB: A Gold Standard for Aesthetic Chills Stimuli.

ABSTRACT: We introduce ChillsDB the first validated database of audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in a US population. To discover chills stimuli "in the wild", we devised a bottom-up, ecologically-valid method consisting in searching for mentions of the emotion' somatic markers in user comments throughout social media platforms (YouTube and Reddit). We successfully captured 204 chills-eliciting videos of three categories: music, film, and speech. We then tested the top 50 videos in the database on 600+ participants and validated a gold standard of 10 stimuli with a 0.9 probability of generating chills. All ChillsDB tools and data are fully available on GitHub for researchers to be able to contribute and perform further analysis.

SUBMITTER: Schoeller F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199910 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

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ChillsDB: A Gold Standard for Aesthetic Chills Stimuli.

Schoeller Felix F Jain Abhinandan A Horowitz Adam Haar AH Yan Grace G Hu Xiaoxiao X Maes Pattie P Salomon Roy R

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We introduce ChillsDB the first validated database of audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in a US population. To discover chills stimuli "in the wild", we devised a bottom-up, ecologically-valid method consisting in searching for mentions of the emotion' somatic markers in user comments throughout social media platforms (YouTube and Reddit). We successfully captured 204 chills-eliciting videos of three categories: music, film, and speech. We then test ...[more]

PMID: 37210402

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