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  • Predicted that if a person were more cognitively immersed in a piece of music, then he or she might be more likely to experience frisson as a result of paying closer attention to the stimuli. And we suspected that whether or not someone would become cognitively immersed in a piece of music in the first place would be a result of his or her personality type.

    To test this hypothesis, participants were brought into the lab and wired up to an instrument that measures galvanic skin response, a measure of how the electrical resistance of people’s skin changes when they become physiologically aroused.

    Examples of pieces used in the study include:

    The first two minutes and 11 seconds of J. S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion: Part 1 – Herr, unser Herrscher

    The first two minutes and 18 seconds of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1: II

    The first 53 seconds of Air Supply’s Making Love Out of Nothing At All

    The first three minutes and 21 seconds of Vangelis' Mythodea: Movement 6

    The first two minutes of Hans Zimmer’s Oogway Ascends

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    https://theconversation.com/why-do-only-some-people-get-skin-orgasms-from-listening-to-music-59719

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  • Interesting post, thanks - I often experience this whilst listening to music