The Relationship Between Valence and Chills in Music: A Corpus Analysis

Chills experienced in response to music listening have been linked both happiness and sadness expressed by music. To investigate these conflicting effects of valence on chills, we conducted a computational analysis corpus 988 tracks previously reported elicit comparing them with control set matched artist, duration, popularity. We analysed track-level audio features obtained the Spotify Web API across two sets tracks, resulting confirmatory findings that which cause chills were sadder than exploratory they also slower, less intense, more instrumental average. found characteristics related direction magnitude difference between tracks. discuss results light current literature music, provide new interpretation terms personality correlates musical preference, review advantages limitations our approach.