Any type of experience that arouses strong emotions can cause chills in those who are sensitive to it. Music would almost systematically intervene as an inductor in these individuals.
What questionnaires or tests do you use to select individuals who are sensitive to "musical chills"?
The effect you are describing is called the "Autonomous sensory meridian response" If you do a pubmed search for that, you'll find 7 papers. That would be a good place to start.
Thank you William for your contribution. I think that "Autonomous sensory meridian response" is another concept.
I'm looking for questionnaire to screen people sensitive to "music chills" as expressed clearly for instance by Mitchell Colver from Utah State University:
" The experience is called frisson, a French term meaning “aesthetic chills,” and it feels like waves of pleasure running all over your skin. Some researchers have even dubbed it a “skin orgasm.” Listening to emotionally moving music is the most common trigger of frisson."
Sounds like basically the same thing to me... but I don't get either, so what would I know. Sorry to lead you down the wrong path.
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