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Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2026
Bignardi Giacomo, Admiraal Danielle, Eising Else, Fisher Simon E
Abstract excerpt
Art can evoke strong emotional responses in humans. Here, we examine genetic contributions to chills, a marker of such responses. We gather self-reports from a genotyped sample of thousands of partly related individuals from the Netherlands (n = 15,606). Using genomic relationships based on common single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data, we find that up to 29% of the variation in proneness to aesthetic (visual...
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