Aesthetic chills, psychogenic shivers elicited by emotionally charged stimuli such as music, offer a neurophysiological marker bridging subjective experience and measurable physiology. Although neuroimaging has localized chills to reward and interoceptive circuits and behavioral work has linked them to prosocial outcomes, their electrophysiological signature and its relationship to...
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Escalating stress prevalence, particularly among essential service personnel whose cognitive compromise threatens public welfare, necessitates rapid, accessible non-pharmacological interventions. Individuals who struggle with endogenous cultivation of beneficial neuropsychological states may benefit from passive exogenous stimulation. This uncontrolled exploratory investigation (n = 74)...