Table 1. Descriptive Statistics for the Two Types of Peak Emotional Responses (Chills and Tears) and the Results of the T-Tests for the Self-Selected and Experimenter-Selected Song Conditions.
| Peak emotional response |
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| Self-selected |
Exp.-selected |
t-test |
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| M | SD | M | SD | t | p | |
| Chill | ||||||
| Number | 6.92 | 4.04 | 0.70 | 1.47 | 11.85 | <0.001*** |
| Intensity | 5.45 | 1.27 | 1.12 | 1.27 | 15.39 | <0.001*** |
| Duration (s) | 3.47 | 4.17 | 0.21 | 0.86 | 6.27 | <0.001*** |
| Tear | ||||||
| Number | 6.12 | 3.57 | 0.79 | 1.25 | 11.45 | <0.001*** |
| Intensity | 5.80 | 1.63 | 1.97 | 1.63 | 11.05 | <0.001*** |
| Duration (s) | 6.60 | 5.41 | 0.71 | 1.75 | 8.42 | <0.001*** |
Note. df = 131. Exp. = experiment. The chills measures were obtained from the chills group and the tears measures were obtained from the tears group. All p-values of the correlation coefficients are <0.001.