On personality and piloerection: Individual differences in aesthetic chills and other unusual aesthetic experiences

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 208-214

  Silvia, Paul J ^a   Nusbaum, Emily C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic chills; Aesthetics; Emotion; Openness to experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052299658     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021914     Document Type: Article

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