Konecni Vladimir J, Wanic Rebekah A, Brown Amber
University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, La Jolla 92093-0109, USA.
Am J Psychol. 2007 Winter;120(4):619-43.
The significance of music-induced thrills or chills was explored in 3 experiments (N= 223). Specifically, the ability of antecedent (priming) stimuli in different modalities and aesthetic domains (national anthems, stories, architectural objects, paintings) to increase the participants' thrills responsiveness to music by Rachmaninoff and Haydn was examined. In addition, the differential effects of having or not having experienced thrills on the participants' subsequent willingness to donate blood, and on their mood and self-concept, were tested. It was found that while the antecedent stimuli in different modalities could themselves induce thrills in a predictable manner, these priming stimuli, and the thrills they elicited, had relatively weak effects on the thrills subsequently induced by the Rachmaninoff and Haydn pieces. The measures of altruism, self-concept, and mood were not affected by either the antecedent variables or the thrills experience. Thrills may often accompany profound aesthetic experiences and provide their physiological underpinning, yet themselves be of limited psychological significance.
在3项实验（N = 223）中探究了音乐引发的震颤或寒战的意义。具体而言，研究了不同模态和美学领域（国歌、故事、建筑作品、绘画）中的先行（启动）刺激增加参与者对拉赫玛尼诺夫和海顿音乐的震颤反应能力。此外，还测试了是否经历过震颤对参与者随后献血意愿、情绪和自我概念的不同影响。研究发现，虽然不同模态的先行刺激本身能够以可预测的方式引发震颤，但这些启动刺激及其引发的震颤对拉赫玛尼诺夫和海顿作品随后引发的震颤影响相对较弱。利他主义、自我概念和情绪的测量指标既不受先行变量的影响，也不受震颤体验的影响。震颤可能常常伴随深刻的审美体验并提供其生理基础，但其本身的心理意义有限。
