Emotion is an essential factor of Human life.

People experience emotion daily during interpersonal communication, a good or bad workday, and leisure activities.

People also experience emotion in response to art, film, and music.

Such emotion sometimes becomes intense, giving a peak emotional experience.

Some people describe such an experience as ‘emotionally moved’ or ‘Kandoh’.

People seek art, regardless of culture and time, and many people expect a peak emotional experience – mainly happiness, sadness, fear, valence, arousal – when appreciating art.

The peak emotional experience of chills when listening to music involves psychophysiological arousal and a rewarding effect. A song that induced chills is perceived as being both happy and sad.

Chills refer to a set of bodily sensations, such as shivers or goose bumps.

Chills occur not only in response to cold air or illness but also to strong emotional experiences. The experience of chills produces physiological arousal and reward for the listener.

Music is one of the major elicitors of tears. Tears involve a certain pleasure from sadness and they are psychophysiologically calming. When sad music evokes tears, such tears are accompanied by pleasure.

Chills induce subjective pleasure, subjective arousal, and physiological arousal whereas tears induce subjective pleasure, relaxation, and physiological calming.

Empathy connects us to particular, self-chosen, individuals. While watching a movie or reading a novel we are more open in an empathic manner.

We feel connected to the suffering individual which we choose to watch or read about. It seems that we choose to be emotionally moved when watching a movie or reading a book.

We can feel another’s pain.

People undergo a positive experience by feeling emotionally moved, and for that reason they seek out certain films or certain books.

The watcher or reader opens his mind to the feeling of being moved by experiencing an ‘overall positive emotional state’.

This is something we do not allow ourselves when confronted with the same feelings during our daily life.