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The Science of Shivering | 213

La salud de la humanidad
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Who hasn't felt a chill at some point? ...but do we really know what it is? Something powerful and complex that has long been addressed in fields ranging from poetry and art to neurobiology. Chills seem to be a universal emotional phenomenon that occurs in all cultures and languages. And their study opens our eyes to both intimate questions about our emotions and practical and therapeutic issues. Even cultural, political, and social ones. We will focus on three questions: 1- ONE: The most basic question: What is a chill and what types are there? 2- TWO: Are they physical, mental, or both? Do men and women, young and old, experience them equally? What happens to us physiologically and cognitively when we experience a chill? 3- THREE: What do current scientific studies on chills tell us? Where is the science of chills now? Possibly the most comprehensive scientific studies on chills are those conducted by Felix Schoeller and his team at MIT (Ma …...more
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The Science of Shivering | 213
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Apr 222025
Who hasn't felt a chill at some point? ...but do we really know what it is? Something powerful and complex that has long been addressed in fields ranging from poetry and art to neurobiology. Chills seem to be a universal emotional phenomenon that occurs in all cultures and languages. And their study opens our eyes to both intimate questions about our emotions and practical and therapeutic issues. Even cultural, political, and social ones. We will focus on three questions: 1- ONE: The most basic question: What is a chill and what types are there? 2- TWO: Are they physical, mental, or both? Do men and women, young and old, experience them equally? What happens to us physiologically and cognitively when we experience a chill? 3- THREE: What do current scientific studies on chills tell us? Where is the science of chills now? Possibly the most comprehensive scientific studies on chills are those conducted by Felix Schoeller and his team at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). They created a large database, the ChillsDB. For a study published in the journal Nature in 2023, they gathered 204 videos from three categories that were known to induce chills: music, movies, and speech. They then tested 50 videos selected from the database on more than 600 participants and identified a pattern of 10 stimuli that were 90% likely to generate chills. Perhaps this type of scientific study of chills involves "cooling off emotions a bit," but it allows for at least three advances, according to the analysis of the Chills Database. 1. First, the videos in this database can be used to map the susceptibility of various psychiatric disorders to reward and allow for the conduct of stress tests and the diagnosis of mood disorders. 2. Second, they can be used as research material in affective neuroscience to elicit an affective response in a controlled and reliable manner. They can also assist in what is known as Emotion-Focused Therapy. 3. And third, they are valuable materials in intercultural studies in the social and human sciences when it comes to studying psychosocial similarities and differences in music, speech, and film in fields such as musicology, aesthetics, linguistics, and narratology. As a final reflection, it's worth remembering that we're not in the right place... especially in the global north. And this isn't just a cheap joke… it's one of the main conclusions of the global mental health report published year after year by the World Health Organization. Let's understand the chills, but above all, let's not repress the expression of all those healthy and stimulating emotions that make us human. We need them more than ever. FURTHER READING The Big Chills Database: ChillsDB: A Gold Standard for Aesthetic Chills Stimuli https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Science attempts to unravel the mysteries of chills https://elpais.com/salud-y-bienestar/... World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All: https://www.who.int/es/publications/i... #chills #chill #emotions #mentalhealth #humanhealth #fernandovalladares ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All links, social media and web: https://fernando.valladares.info
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La salud de la humanidad

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