Chill-inducing music enhances altruism in humans by Hajime eFukui, Kumiko eToyoshima

“…The dictators listened to their own preferred chill-inducing music, to music they disliked, or to silence, and then played the Dictator Game. …”
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The Relationship Between Valence and Chills in Music: A Corpus Analysis by Rémi de Fleurian, Marcus T. Pearce

“…Chills experienced in response to music listening have been linked to both happiness and sadness expressed by music. …”
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A Vigilance Explanation of Musical Chills? Effects of Loudness and Brightness Manipulations by Scott Bannister

“…Recent research has suggested that low-level psychoacoustic parameters such as loudness and spectral brightness are correlated with musical chills, a subjective emotional experience accompanied by goosebumps, shivers, and tingling sensations. …”
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Aesthetic chills cause an emotional drift in valence and arousal by Abhinandan Jain, Felix Schoeller, Felix Schoeller, Felix Schoeller, Adam Horowitz, Xiaoxiao Hu, Grace Yan, Roy Salomon, Pattie Maes

“…Aesthetic chills are an embodied peak emotional experience induced by stimuli such as music, films, and speeches and characterized by dopaminergic release. …”
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Emotional responses to favorite and relaxing music predict music-induced hypoalgesia by Darius Valevicius, Anaïs Lépine Lopez, Ajar Diushekeeva, April Chaewon Lee, Mathieu Roy, Mathieu Roy

“…We found suggestive evidence that moving/bittersweet favorite music reduces pain unpleasantness through increased music pleasantness (ab = −5.48, p < 0.001) and more musical chills (ab = −0.57, p = 0.004).DiscussionWe find that music pleasantness and musical chills are salient predictors of music-induced hypoalgesia, and that different categories of favorite music derived from qualitative analysis may engage these emotional pathways to different degrees.…”
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Editor’s Note: Sounding the Break: Music Studies and the Political by Tom Wetmore

“…In her article, “Power and Equity in the Academy: Change from Within,” music theorist Ellie M. Hisama focuses on more contemporary concerns. …”
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Are the new mobile wireless EEG headsets reliable for the evaluation of musical pleasure? by Thibault Chabin, Damien Gabriel, Emmanuel Haffen, Thierry Moulin, Lionel Pazart

“…Sixteen participants reported feeling emotional pleasure (from low pleasure up to musical chills) when listening to their favorite chill-inducing musical excerpts. …”
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A review of the holy Quran listening and its neural correlation for its potential as a psycho-spiritual therapy by Mohammed Abdalla Kannan, Nurfaizatul Aisyah Ab Aziz, Nur Syairah Ab Rani, Mohd Waqiyuddin Abdullah, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd Rashid, Mas Syazwanee Shab, Nurul Iman Ismail, Muhammad Amiri Ab Ghani, Faruque Reza, Mustapha Muzaimi

“…In this context, the listening of rhythmic Quranic verses among Muslims is often viewed as a form of unconventional melodic vocals, with accompanied anecdotal claims of the ‘Quranic chills’ pleasing effect. However, compared to music, rhythm, and meditation therapy, information on the neural basis of the anecdotal healing effects of the Quran remain largely unexplored. …”
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Eros, Beauty, and Phon-Aesthetic Judgements of Language Sound. We Like It Flat and Fast, but Not Melodious. Comparing Phonetic and Acoustic Features of 16 European Languages by Vita V. Kogan, Susanne M. Reiterer, Susanne M. Reiterer

“…We investigated the phonetic-acoustic dimension of the linguistic aesthetic pleasure to describe the “music” found in European languages. The Romance languages, French, Italian, and Spanish, take a lead when people talk about melodious language – the music-like effects in the language (a.k.a., phonetic chill). …”
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Extraordinary emotional responses elicited by auditory stimuli linked to the consumption of food and drink by Spence, C

“…While such responses to auditory stimuli (increasingly mediated by technology) in the context of food are by no means widespread, they nevertheless hold the potential of delivering dramatic food and beverage experiences that offer the promise of being more stimulating, more memorable, and more emotionally-engaging than anything that has gone before.…”