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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 307 |
| Journal | Scientific data |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 20 May 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s).
Funding
The authors would like to thank Marc Santolini and Raphael Tackx for working on the early stages of the parser, as well as Janis Zickfeld for sharing stimuli from their prior study. The research reported in this publication was supported by a Joy Ventures research grant. FS work is partially supported by a Tiny Blue Dot Foundation grant to the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies | |
| Tiny Blue Dot Foundation |