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Suggest a correction. Now What? In general, the results point to seven apparent themes. These include relaxation, quiet, proximity, intimacy, attraction, privacy, and movement. Relaxation is evident in the lower vocal energy, slower speaking rate, the quieter environment, and the greater use of pauses and whispering. Many of these same qualities are also characteristic of close physical proximity, close-up framing, and simply a quiet sound environment. The use of makeup and increased oral wetness cues are consistent with increased intimacy and attraction.

Another theme appears to be the private setting. Finally, movement especially the movement of sound appears to also characterize ASMR videos in contrast to the various control videos.

What makes a video an "ASMR" video is arguably less about the content of the video, and more about the responses of viewers. As a psychological phenomenon, our second study aims to characterize the common elements described by viewers responding to ASMR videos. Recall that three earlier studies have surveyed ASMR viewers using a priori questions to gain insight into the viewer experience Barratt and Davis, ; Fredborg et al.

In our exploratory study, we focused on unsolicited comments instead. Nevertheless, we will see that the results of our more open-ended approach provide converging evidence with these earlier studies.

For the purposes of this second study, we examined written comments and discussions found on various websites, including YouTube comments and reddit discussion forums. We also included the descriptions accompanying the uploaded videos, as well as the forum description called "rules" on reddit.

In reviewing the comments, we specifically sought out comments related to physiology, etiology, psychology, and utility. That is, descriptions of physical symptoms, precipitating stimuli, subjective experiences, and functional uses of ASMR. Of course web comments are not necessarily representative; nor are comments independent responses. Not all viewers who experience ASMR from these videos will leave comments. Additionally, on the web, comments typically encourage further responses, sometimes reinforcing the original comment, or often disputing the comment.

In this regard, web-originating comments differ considerably from the sorts of comments one might collect from an individually administered survey.

These caveats notwithstanding, we nevertheless aimed to glean common characterizations related to physiology, etiology, psychology, and function. With regard to sampling, we examined the comments for the same 30 videos used in the first sample of Study 1.

For each of the 30 videos, we examined the first comments on YouTube. In addition, we examined the first 20 comments for the top 30 posts on Reddit. Comments are commonly followed by discussion threads which respond to the initial comment. In order to increase data independence, we sampled only initial comments and ignored ensuing threads. Compared with YouTube threads, reddit threads tend to be shorter. Accordingly, we analyzed the "best" 20 comments as labeled by reddit from the top 30 threads.

We first collected the primary comments; if there were fewer than 20, we augmented the sample by collecting the first child comment beneath each initial comment until we achieved the sampling quota of 20 comments.

Discussions of parodies were excluded as well as logistical posts discussing how to moderate the forum. We initiated sampling by collecting from the 25 all-time top posts, then continued with the top ASMR videos from this past year until we achieved the sampling quota of 30 posts. In total, we assembled a sample of 3, comments. Individual comments were tagged with one or more of five tags: physiology a comment related to a bodily state or bodily feeling , etiology identification of an action or event in the video that was identified as the cause of some response , psychology an introspective description of a cognitive or emotional state , and function reports of how the viewer makes use of the video.

A fifth category was simply tagged "interesting" if the comment was deemed intriguing, but not fitting into the other four categories.

Note that a given comment could receive more than one of the five tags. Comments were assigned to these five a priori categories twice, once by one of the experimenters, and a second time by an independent researcher not involved with the project. That is, each independent rater sorted the comments according to whatever categories seem salient given the contents of the comments.

After independent sorting, both raters provided descriptive labels for each of their sorted categories. On the basis of the two independent content analyses, an aggregate set of categories was created as shown in Tables These categories were an effort to provide a superset of the two content analyses.

This aggregate set of categories was created informally rather than employing any formal method. Each Table shows three columns. The first column identifies the agreed label for the comment category.

The second column identifies the number of comments identified by each of the two raters that were deemed to fit in the category. The third column provides a sample comment. As an exploratory study, we did not have any a priori hypotheses to test.

Once again, the goal is simply to provide a reasonably representative characterization of ASMR. Based on the collected comments, we distilled any common themes. Regarding physiology, very few comments described specific somatic or physiological symptoms. The most common physical description was a feeling of "tingling. Common locations included the back of the neck and spine, and the back of the head.

To a lesser extent viewers identified shoulders and arms. These findings reinforce Barratt and Davis's surveyed results, that the physiological response consists of a tingling sensation most often originating at the back of the head and neck.

Eight comments specifically identified goosebumps. Regarding etiology, it was common for commentators to describe what "does it" and what "doesn't do it" for them. The comments here spanned a wide variety of circumstances.

Some comments relate to visual aspects, others to auditory aspects. Comments pointed to both important "triggers" of the ASMR response, and also pointed to aspects that suppressed or "ruined" the effect. As might be expected, comments revealed a number of disagreements. Some of these disagreements led to independent threads where people would effectively celebrate that they had found people of like experience, while acknowledging that other ASMR enthusiasts appear not to have the same experience.

The most popular category was the quality of the voice. Common preferences were for whispered or soft-spoken voice. Comments often identified particular speech sounds, most notably sibilants "s", "sh," and "sk". Other popular sounds included breathing, chewing, and eating sounds. Non-vocal triggers included brushing, buzzing, and tapping sounds, clicking or scratching, water noises, and the sound of hair being combed or brushed.

Viewers expressed appreciation for high quality sound recording as well as good visual production. Complaints were often voiced that the sound was too loud, too fast, or less commonly too quiet. Frequent complaints focused on interruptions due to YouTube advertising, especially when the advertising resulted in dramatic increases in loudness. Regarding visual triggers, the most common comment related to the visual attractiveness of the ASMR actor. Expressions of appreciation included the proximity of the actor to the camera "I love that you came close to the screen".

A few viewers note that they mute the audio and simply enjoy watching the visual. These etiological findings converge with prior surveyed results. Barratt and Davis identified whispering, attention, crisp sounds, and slow movements as common triggers. McErlean and Banissy identified whispering, finger tapping, hair brushing, various role-playing scenarios, and eating to be popular triggers. This open-ended approach helps to illustrate the immense potential for variety in stimuli used to evoke ASMR in viewers.

Regarding psychology, the single most important observation is that the experience of ASMR is regarded as enjoyable or pleasurable.

As might be imagined, commentaries polarize into praise and criticism. Positive comments include expressions of love or appreciation for the artist, appreciation of the calming or relaxing effect of the video, feeling comforted or cared-for, appreciation of the video's ability to induce sleepiness, and expressions of nostalgic appreciation, such as reminding a viewer of how their mother would speak to them as a child. Negative comments indicate that ASMR is clearly experienced by only a subset of the population.

The most popular negative comments include expressions of confusion by non-ASMR individuals. For these viewers, ASMR videos seem odd-ball, weird, or in some cases "creepy. Finally, negative comments include complaints by ASMR fans that a particular video fails to work for them.

Regarding function, the most commonly reported "use" for ASMR videos is to facilitate falling asleep. Other commonly claimed functions include easing anxiety, inducing a relaxed state, and helping to unwind. In addition, comments indicate that ASMR videos are used to deal with insomnia, to calm infants, and in several cases to ease pain or sickness. For example, one viewer reportedly used ASMR videos to deal with pain following a dental operation, and another viewer reported using ASMR videos to better handle fibromyalgia.

Finally, viewers report using ASMR videos while working, such as doing homework, or dealing with paperwork. Among the comments grouped in the "interesting" category, some viewers reported a sense of being addicted to the videos.

Frequent viewers would sometimes report a feeling of increasing tolerance or reduced effect. Eight comments explicitly noted enjoying viewing ASMR videos in conjunction with recreational drug use, the most commonly reported drug being marijuana. Although anecdotal and speculative, such observations are consistent with sensory sensitivity thought to be symptomatic of Asperger's e.

It was common for ASMR fans to express appreciation for the sense of community experienced through the online groups. Autonomous sensory meridian response ASMR is a recently popular phenomenon whose purpose-created videos have attracted millions of viewers, including a large dedicated community of appreciative fans. In light of study 1, ASMR videos exhibit a number of distinctive characteristics.

They typically involve private scenes in which an attractive female actor engages in quiet role-playing activities, speaking in a relaxed, low-energy voice, sometimes whispering. With respect to both audio and visual stimuli, the videos exhibit considerable warmth or intimacy, occasionally exhibiting some flirtatious elements but otherwise devoid of overt sexuality.

In light of study 2, viewers of ASMR videos appear to readily polarize into two different groups. ASMR fans find the videos relaxing and enjoyable, sometimes intensely pleasurable. Non-fans report finding the videos weird, odd-ball, and stressful. Among ASMR fans, pleasant physiological responses include a tingling sensation, especially around the back of the head and the neck. These positive feelings appear to be triggered by quiet voice, associated intimate sounds, as well as perhaps visual close up.

ASMR fans report using the videos to induce relaxation and as an aid for sleep. Future investigations of ASMR might consider two questions.

First, what are the personal or experiential attributes that distinguish ASMR fans from non-fans? Second, detailed examination of the physiological responses is warranted. These might include topical and metabolic measures as well as further imaging of the central nervous system during ASMR experiences. Ultimately, the most compelling question is one of hedonics: how is it that ASMR is able to evoke pleasure?

The similarity of ASMR to frisson suggests that the two phenomena might share a common source. For researchers interested in the phenomenon of frisson whether musically-induced or not , ASMR raises something of a paradox.

On the one hand, the physiological symptoms of ASMR strongly resemble the classic symptoms of frisson. Historically, "pleasurable goosebumps" has provided the principal operational definition of frisson — implying that ASMR might be regarded as a type of frisson.

On the other hand, many people who experience ASMR also report experiencing frisson in response to music, and several aficionados insist that ASMR experiences differ qualitatively from frisson Collins, ; Higham, One apparent difference between ASMR and frisson is that ASMR responders are more likely to describe the topical skin-related response as a "tingling" sensation rather than as goosebumps.

In addition, tingling feelings from ASMR are more likely to be reported as sustained and subdued in comparison to frisson Collins, The most notable difference between the two experiences is the contrasting nature of the stimuli.

As we have seen, the stimuli associated with ASMR are much quieter, more proximate, are more likely to entail sounds behind the listener, and involve more human vocalizing, especially whispered speech. In short, the sounds associated with ASMR appear much more intimate in character. This raises the question of how two broadly similar responses might arise from such contrasting stimuli. Theories of music-induced frisson have been reviewed in Huron and Margulis The most developed theory is that proposed by Huron That is, a negatively valenced response such as fear can be suppressed resulting in an overall positively valenced effect.

A classic example is provided by the surprise party in which an unexpected surprise produces momentary startle or even panic, which is then suppressed due to cognitive appraisal of the innocuousness of the situation. As long ago as , Burke proposed that sublime experiences entail some element of fear.

For example, Burke defined "awe" as "wonder tinged with fear. All mammals including humans commonly respond to fear-inducing stimuli by hair-raising, especially around the neck and shoulder regions. Similarly, breath-holding is a component of tonic immobility which characterizes the fear-induced "freeze" response.

Huron proposed that the suppression of fear results in positively valenced breath-holding, commonly associated with the experience of awe. Finally, the idea that suppressing fear can be pleasurable is evident in the two most popular theories of laughter.

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