title: Thrills, chills, frissons, and skin orgasms: toward an integrative model of transcendent psychophysiological experiences in music.
abstract: Music has a unique power to elicit moments of intense emotional and psychophysiological response. These moments - termed "chills," "thrills", "frissons," etc. - are subjects of introspection and philosophical debate, as well as scientific study in music perception and cognition. The present article integrates the existing multidisciplinary literature in an attempt to define a comprehensive, testable, and ecologically valid model of transcendent psychophysiological moments in music.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Luke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Psyche
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Loui
keywords: chills; emotion; frissons; music; review
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