Autonomous sensory meridian response

Autonom ous sensory m eridian response (ASMR) is a term used

for an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on
the skin that ty pically begins on the scalp and mov es down the back of
the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory -tactile
sy nesthesia. [2][3] ASMR signifies the subjectiv e experience of "low-grade
euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positiv e feelings and a
distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly
triggered by specific auditory or v isual stimuli, and less commonly by
intentional attention control. [4][5]

An illustration of the route of ASMR's

tingling sensation[1]

Contents
Name
Sensation and triggers
Sensation
Triggers
Whispering triggers
Auditory triggers
Personal attention role play triggers
Clinical role play triggers

Background and history

Contemporary history
Earlier history
Evolutionary history
Categories
Media
Videos
Binaural recording
Clinical implications
Academic commentary
Peer-reviewed articles
Scientific commentary
Comparisons and associations with other phenomena
Comparison with synesthesia
Comparison with misophonia
Comparison with frisson
Association with sexuality
In pop culture
Contemporary art
Digital arts
Music
Film
Fictional and creative literature
 Non-fiction
Statistics
See also
References
External links

Name
The term "autonomous sensory meridian response" was popularized by Jennifer Allen, a cy bersecurity
professional residing in New Y ork[6] in the introduction to a Facebook group she founded in February 2010
called the ASMR Group. [7]

Prior to the subsequent social consensus that led to what is now the ubiquitous adoption of that term, other
names were proposed and discussed at a number of locations including the Steady Health forum, the Society of
Sensationalists Y ahoo! group and the Unnamed Feeling Blog.

Proposed formal names included "auditory induced head orgasm", "attention induced euphoria" and "attention
induced observ ant euphoria", whilst colloquial terms in usage included "brain massage", "head tingle", "brain
tingle", "spine tingle" and "brain orgasm". [8][9][10][11][12][13]

Whilst many colloquial and formal terms used and proposed between 2007 and 2010 included reference to
orgasm, there was during that time a significant majority objection to its use among those activ e in online
discussions, many of whom hav e continued to persist in differentiating the euphoric and relaxing nature of ASMR
from sexual arousal. [14] Howev er, by 2015, a div ision had occurred within the ASMR community ov er the
subject of sexual arousal, with some creating v ideos categorized as ASMRotica (ASMR erotica), which are
deliberately designed to be sexually stimulating. [15][16]

The initial consensus among the ASMR community was that the name should not pose a high risk of the
phenomenon being perceiv ed as sexual. Giv en that consensus, Allen proposed "autonomous sensory meridian
response". Allen chose the words intending or assuming them to hav e the following specific meanings:[17]

Autonomous – spontaneous, self-governing, with or without control

Sensory – pertaining to the senses or sensation
Meridian – signifying a peak, climax, or point of highest development
Response – referring to an experience triggered by something external or internal
Allen v erified in a 2016 interv iew that she purposely selected these terms because they were more objectiv e,
comfortable, and clinical than alternativ e terms for the sensation. [18] Allen explained she selected the word
meridian to replace the word orgasm due to its meaning of point or period of greatest prosperity .

The term "autonomous sensory meridian response" and its initialism ASMR were adopted by both the community
of contributors to online discussions and those reporting and commentating on the phenomenon.

Sensation and triggers

Sensation
The subjectiv e experience, sensation, and perceptual phenomenon now widely identified by the term
'autonomous sensory meridian response' is described by some of those susceptible to it as 'akin to a mild
electrical current…or the carbonated bubbles in a glass of champagne'. [19]
Triggers
ASMR is usually precipitated by stimuli referred to as 'triggers'. [19] ASMR triggers, which are most commonly
auditory and v isual, may be encountered through the interpersonal interactions of daily life. Additionally , ASMR
is often triggered by exposure to specific audio and v ideo. Such media may be specially made with the specific
purpose of triggering ASMR or originally created for other purposes and later discov ered to be effectiv e as a
trigger of the experience. [4]

Stimuli that can trigger ASMR, as reported by those who experience it, include the following:

Listening to a softly spoken or whispering voice

Listening to quiet, repetitive sounds resulting from someone engaging in a mundane task such as turning the pages
of a book
Watching somebody attentively execute a mundane task such as preparing food
Loudly chewing, crunching, slurping or biting foods, drinks, or gum.
Receiving altruistic tender personal attention
Initiating the stimulus through conscious manipulation without the need for external video or audio triggers
Furthermore, watching and listening to an audiov isual recording of a person performing or simulating the abov e
actions and producing their consequent and accompany ing sounds is sufficient to trigger ASMR for the majority
of those who report susceptibility to the experience. [20][21][22][23]

Whispering triggers
Psy chologists Nick Dav is and Emma Barratt discov ered that whispering was an effectiv e trigger for 7 5% of the
47 5 subjects who took part in an experiment to inv estigate the nature of ASMR, [4] and that statistic is reflected in
the popularity of intentional ASMR v ideos that comprise someone speaking in a whispered v oice. [24][25][26]

Auditory triggers
Many of those who experience ASMR report that some specific non-v ocal ambient noises are also effectiv e
triggers of ASMR, including those like the sound of rain, fingers scratching or tapping a surface, the crushing of
eggshells, the crinkling and crumpling of a flexible material such as paper, or writing. Many Y ouTube v ideos that
are intended to trigger ASMR responses capture a single person performing these actions and the sounds that
result. [27][28]

Personal attention role play triggers

In addition to the effectiv eness of specific auditory stimuli, many subjects report that ASMR is triggered by the
receipt of tender personal attention, often comprising combined phy sical touch and v ocal expression, such as
when hav ing their hair cut, nails painted, ears cleaned, or back massaged, whilst the serv ice prov ider speaks
quietly to the recipient. Furthermore, many of those who hav e experienced ASMR during these and other
comparable encounters with a serv ice prov ider report that watching an 'ASMRtist' simulate the prov ision of such
personal attention, acting directly to the camera as if the v iewer were the recipient of a simulated serv ice, is
sufficient to trigger it. [5][29][30]

Psy chologists Nick Dav is and Emma Barratt discov ered that personal attention was an effectiv e trigger for 69% of
the 47 5 subjects who participated in a study conducted at Swansea Univ ersity , second in popularity only to
whispering. [4]

Some roleplay s also incorporate fantasy or science fiction elements in a way that allows "escape" for the v iewers.
Some also incorporate legitimate stories into the roleplay s in a way that could be considered entertainment in its
own right, outside of the ASMR phenomenon.
Clinical role play triggers
Among the category of intentional ASMR v ideos that simulate the prov ision of personal attention is a
subcategory of those specifically depicting the 'ASMRtist' prov iding clinical or medical serv ices, including
routine general medical examinations. The creators of these v ideos make no claims to the reality of what is
depicted, and the v iewer is intended to be aware that they are watching and listening to a simulation, performed
by an actor. Nonetheless, many subjects attribute therapeutic outcomes to these and other categories of
intentional ASMR v ideos, and there are v oluminous anecdotal reports of their effectiv eness in inducing sleep for
those susceptible to insomnia, and assuaging a range of sy mptoms including those associated with depression,
anxiety , and panic attacks. [31][32][33]

In the first peer-rev iewed article on ASMR, published in Perspectives in Biology during the summer of 2013,
Nitin Ahuja, who was at the time of publication a medical student at the Univ ersity of Virginia, inv ited conjecture
on whether the receipt of simulated medical attention might hav e some tangible therapeutic v alue for the
recipient, comparing the purported positiv e outcome of clinical role play ASMR v ideos with the themes of the
nov el Love in the Ruins by author and phy sician Walker Percy , published in 197 1. [5]

The story follows Tom More, a psy chiatrist liv ing in a dy stopian future who dev elops a dev ice called the
Ontological Lapsometer that, when traced across the scalp of a patient, detects the neurochemical correlation to
a range of disturbances. In the course of the nov el, More admits that the 'mere application of his dev ice' to a
patient's body 'results in the partial relief of his sy mptoms'. [34]

Ahuja alleges that through the character of Tom More, as depicted in Love in the Ruins, Percy 'display s an
intuitiv e understanding of the diagnostic act as a form of therapy unto itself'. Ahuja asks whether similarly , the
receipt of simulated personal clinical attention by an actor in an ASMR v ideo might afford the listener and v iewer
some relief. [35]

Background and history

Contemporary history
The contemporary history of ASMR began on 19 October 2007 when a 21-y ear-old registered user of a
discussion forum for health-related subjects at a website called 'Steady Health', [36] with the username
'okay whatev er', submitted a post in which they described hav ing experienced a specific sensation since
childhood, comparable to that stimulated by tracing fingers along the skin, y et often triggered by seemingly
random and unrelated non-haptic ev ents, such as 'watching a puppet show' or 'being read a story '. [37]

Replies to this post, which indicated that a significant number of others experienced the sensation to which
'okay whatev er' referred, also in response to witnessing mundane ev ents, precipitated the formation of a number
of web-based locations intended to facilitate further discussion and analy sis of the phenomenon for which there
was plentiful anecdotal accounts, [24][38][39] y et no consensus-agreed name nor any scientific data or
explanation. [31]

These included a Y ahoo! Group called 'The Society of Sensationalists', founded on 12 December 2008 by a user
named 'Ry an, AKA M?stery ';[40] a blog at Blogspot.com called 'The Unnamed Feeling', launched on 13 February
2010 by Andrew MacMuiris;[41] an ASMR Facebook Group founded on 25 February 2010 by Jennifer Allen;[7] a
Subreddit forum created by an indiv idual with the username ' MrStonedOne' on 28 February 2011;[42] and a
number of other web locations that facilitate user interaction. [43][44][45][46]

Earlier history
Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz suggests that a passage from the nov el Mrs.
Dalloway authored by Virginia Woolf and published in 1925, describes
something distinctly comparable. [47][48] In the passage from Mrs. Dalloway
cited by Setz, a nursemaid speaks to the man who is her patient 'deeply , softly ,
like a mellow organ, but with a roughness in her v oice like a grasshopper's,
which rasped his spine deliciously and sent running up into his brain wav es of
sound'. [49]

According to Setz, this citation generally alludes to the effectiv eness of the
human v oice and soft or whispered v ocal sounds specifically as a trigger of
ASMR for many of those who experience it, as demonstrated by the responsiv e
comments posted to Y ouTube v ideos that depict someone speaking softly or
whispering, ty pically directly to camera. [24][25][26]
Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs.
Dalloway contains a
Evolutionary history passage describing
something that may be
Nothing can currently be definitiv ely
comparable to ASMR.
known about any ev olutionary origins
for ASMR since the perceptual
phenomenon itself has y et to be
clearly identified as hav ing biological
correlates. Ev en so, a significant
majority of descriptions of ASMR by
those who experience it compare the
sensation to that precipitated by Animal grooming has often been
receipt of tender phy sical touch, interpreted as a form of bonding.
prov iding examples such as hav ing
their hair cut or combed. This has led
to the conjecture that ASMR might be related to the act of grooming. [50][51][52]

For example, Dav id Huron, Professor in the School of Music at Ohio State Univ ersity , states:

"[The 'ASMR effect' is] clearly strongly related to the perception of non-threat and altruistic
attention [and has a] strong similarity to phy sical grooming in primates [who] deriv e enormous
pleasure (bordering on euphoria) when being groomed by a grooming partner...not to get clean, but
rather to bond with each other."[27]

Categories
While little scientific research has been conducted into potential neurobiological correlates to the perceptual
phenomenon known as 'autonomous sensory meridian response' (ASMR), with a consequent dearth of data with
which to either explain or refute its phy sical nature, there is v oluminous anecdotal literature comprising
personal commentary and intimate disclosure of subjectiv e experiences distributed across forums, blogs, and
Y ouTube comments by hundreds of thousands of people. Within this literature, in addition to the original
consensus that ASMR is euphoric but non-sexual in nature, a further point of continued majority agreement
within the community of those who experience it is that they fall into two broad categories of
subjects. [37][40][42][53]
One category depends upon external triggers in order to experience the localized sensation and its associated
feelings, which ty pically originates in the head, often reaching down the neck and sometimes the upper back. The
other category can intentionally augment the sensation and feelings through attentional control, without
dependence upon external stimuli, or 'triggers', in a manner compared by some subjects to their experience of
meditation. [54]

Media

Videos
The most popular source of stimuli reported by subjects to be effectiv e
in triggering ASMR is v ideo. Videos reported being effectiv e in
triggering ASMR fall into two categories, identified and named by the
community as 'Intentional' and 'Unintentional'. Intentional media is
created by those known within the community as 'ASMRtists' with the
purpose of triggering ASMR in v iewers and listeners. Unintentional
media is that made for other purposes, often before attention was
An ASMR video
drawn to the phenomenon in 2007 , but which some subjects discov er
to be effectiv e in triggering ASMR. [42][55] One of the most popular
examples of unintentional media sev eral journalists hav e noted is of famed painter Bob Ross. In episodes of his
popular telev ision series The Joy of Painting both broadcast and on Y ouTube, his soft, gentle, altruistic speaking
mannerisms and the sound of him painting and his tools trigger the effect on many of his v iewers. [56][57] The work
of stop-motion filmmaker PES is also often noted. [58]

Binaural recording
Some ASMR v ideo creators use binaural recording techniques to
simulate the acoustics of a three dimensional env ironment, reported to
elicit in v iewers and listeners the experience of being in close proximity
to actor and v ocalist. [59]

Viewing and hearing such ASMR v ideos that comprise ambient sound
captured through binaural recording has been compared to the
reported effect of listening to binaural beats, which are also alleged to A binaural roleplay ASMR video from
YouTube
precipitate pleasurable sensations and the subjectiv e experience of
calm and equanimity . [60]

Binaural recordings are made specifically to be heard through headphones rather than loudspeakers. When
listening to sound through loudspeakers, the left and right ear can both hear the sound coming from both
speakers. By distinction, when listening to sound through headphones, the sound from the left earpiece is audible
only to the left ear, and the sound from the right ear piece is audible only to the right ear. When producing
binaural media, the sound source is recorded by two separate microphones, placed at a distance comparable to
that between two ears, and they are not mixed, but remain separate on the final medium, whether v ideo or
audio. [61]

Listening to a binaural recording through headphones simulates the binaural hearing by which people listen to
liv e sounds. For the listener, this experience is characterised by two perceptions. Firstly , the listener perceiv es
being in close proximity to the performers and location of the sound source. Secondly , the listener perceiv es
what is often reported as a three dimensional sound. [59]
Clinical implications
There is no scientific data nor any clinical trials from which to deduce ev idence that might support or refute any
clinical benefits or dangers of ASMR, with claims to therapeutic efficacy remaining based on v oluminous
personal anecdotal accounts by those who attribute the positiv e effect on anxiety , depression, and insomnia to
ASMR v ideo media. [38][62][63]

Amer Khan, a phy sician who practises sleep medicine at the Sutter Neuroscience Institute, has adv ised that
watching ASMR v ideos as a means to treat insomnia may not be the best method by which to induce high-quality
sleep, as it could become a habit comparable to dependence on a white noise machine. [64]

This point of v iew is contradicted by Carl W. Bazil, Professor of Neurology at Columbia Univ ersity Medical Center
and director of its Sleep Disorders Center, [65] who suggests that ASMR v ideos may prov ide way s to 'shut y our
brain down' that are a v ariation of other methods, including guided imagery , progressiv e relaxation, hy pnosis
and meditation', of potential particular benefit for those with insomnia, whom he describes as being in a 'hy per
state of arousal'. [32]

Academic commentary

Peer-reviewed articles
Sev eral peer-rev iewed articles about ASMR hav e been published.

The first, by the medical student Nitin Ahuja, is titled "It Feels Good to Be Measured: clinical role-play , Walker
Percy , and the tingles". It was published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine during 2013 and focused on a
conjectural cultural and literary analy sis. [35]

Another article, published in the journal Television and New Media in Nov ember 2014, is by Joceline Andersen,
a doctoral student in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill Univ ersity , [66] who
suggested that ASMR v ideos comprising whispering 'create an intimate sonic space shared by the listener and the
whisperer'. Andersen's article proposes that the pleasure jointly shared by both an ASMR v ideo creator and its
v iewers might be perceiv ed as a particular form of 'non-standard intimacy ' by which consumers pursue a form of
pleasure mediated by v ideo media. Andersen suggests that such pursuit is priv ate y et also public or publicized
through the sharing of experiences v ia online communication with others within the 'whispering community '. [67]

Another article, "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR): a flow-like mental state", by Nick Dav is and
Emma Barratt, lecturer and post-graduate researcher respectiv ely in the Department of Psy chology at Swansea
Univ ersity , was published in PeerJ. This article aimed to 'describe the sensations associated with ASMR, explore
the way s in which it is ty pically induced in capable indiv iduals … to prov ide further thoughts on where this
sensation may fit into current knowledge on aty pical perceptual experiences … and to explore the extent to
which engagement with ASMR may ease sy mptoms of depression and chronic pain'[4] The paper was based on a
study of 245 men, 222 women, and 8 indiv iduals of non-binary gender, aged from 18 to 54 y ears, all of whom had
experienced ASMR, and regularly consumed ASMR media, from which the authors concluded and suggested that
'giv en the reported benefits of ASMR in improv ing mood and pain sy mptoms…ASMR warrants further
inv estigation as a potential therapeutic measure similar to that of meditation and mindfulness.'

An article titled "An examination of the default mode network in indiv iduals with autonomous sensory meridian
response (ASMR)"[68] by Stephen D. Smith, Bev erley Katherine Fredborg, and Jennifer Kornelsen, looked at the
default mode network (DMN) in indiv iduals with ASMR. The study , which used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), concluded that there were significant differences in the DMN of indiv iduals who hav e ASMR as
compared to a control group without ASMR.
Scientific commentary
A number of scientists hav e published or made public their reaction to and opinions of ASMR.

On 12 March 2012, Stev en Nov ella, Director of General Neurology at the Y ale School of Medicine, published a
post about ASMR on his blog Neurologica. Regarding the question of whether ASMR is a real phenomeonon,
Nov ella say s "in this case, I don't think there is a definitiv e answer, but I am inclined to believ e that it is. There
are a number of people who seem to hav e independently experienced and described" it with "fairly specific
details. In this way it's similar to migraine headaches – we know they exist as a sy ndrome primarily because
many different people report the same constellation of sy mptoms and natural history ." Nov ella tentativ ely posits
the possibilities that ASMR might be either a ty pe of pleasurable seizure, or another way to activ ate the "pleasure
response". Howev er, Nov ella draws attention to the lack of scientific inv estigation into ASMR, suggesting that
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation technologies should be
used to study the brains of people who experience ASMR in comparison to people who do not, as a way of
beginning to seek scientific understanding and explanation of the phenomenon. [69][70]

Four months after Nov ella's blog post, Tom Stafford, a lecturer in psy chology and cognitiv e sciences at the
Univ ersity of Sheffield, was reported to hav e said that ASMR "might well be a real thing, but it's inherently
difficult to research...something like this that y ou can't see or feel" and "doesn't happen for ev ery one". Stafford
compares the current status of ASMR with dev elopment of attitudes toward sy nesthesia, which he say s "for
y ears...was a my th, then in the 1990s people came up with a reliable way of measuring it". [71]

Comparisons and associations with other phenomena

Comparison with synesthesia

Integral to the subjectiv e experience of ASMR is a localized tingling sensation that many describe as similar to
being gently touched, but which is stimulated by watching and listening to v ideo media in the absence of any
phy sical contact with another person.

These reports hav e precipitated comparison between ASMR and sy nesthesia – a condition characterised by the
excitation of one sensory modality by stimuli that normally exclusiv ely stimulates another, as when the hearing
of a specific sound induces the v isualization of a distinct color, a ty pe of sy nesthesia called chromesthesia.
Thereby , people with other ty pes of sy nesthesia report for example 'seeing sounds' in the case of auditory -v isual
sy nesthesia, or 'tasting words' in the case of lexical-gustatory sy nesthesia. [72][73][74][75][76]

In the case of ASMR, many report the perception of 'being touched' by the sights and sounds presented on a
v ideo recording, comparable to v isual-tactile and auditory -tactile sy nesthesia. [77]

Comparison with misophonia

Some commentators and members of the ASMR community hav e sought to relate ASMR to misophonia, which
literally means the 'hatred of sound', but manifests ty pically as 'automatic negativ e emotional reactions to
particular sounds – the opposite of what can be observ ed in reactions to specific audio stimuli in ASMR'. [4]

For example, those who suffer from misophonia often report that specific human sounds, including those made
by breathing or whispering with any loudness can precipitate feelings of anger and disgust, in the absence of any
prev iously learned associations that might otherwise explain those reactions. [78][79]
There are plentiful anecdotal reports by those who claim to hav e both misophonia and ASMR at multiple web-
based user-interaction and discussion locations. Common to these reports is the experience of ASMR to some
sounds, and misophonia in response to others. [80][81][82] In one case, a subject reports that the sound of someone
whispering can precipitate ASMR or misophonia depending on who is producing it. [83]

Comparison with frisson

The tingling sensation that characterises ASMR has been compared and contrasted to 'frisson', which is a French
word for 'shiv er'. [84]

Howev er, the English word 'shiv er' signifies the rhy thmic inv oluntary contraction of skeletal muscles which
serv es the function of generating heat in response to low temperatures, has v ariable duration, and is often
reported subjectiv ely as unpleasant. By distinction, the French word 'frisson', signifies a brief sensation usually
reported as pleasurable and often expressed as an ov erwhelming emotional response to stimuli, such as a piece
of music. Frisson often occurs simultaneously with piloerection, colloquially known as 'goosebumps', by which
tiny muscles called arrector pili contract, causing body hair, particularly that on the limbs and back of the neck,
to erect or 'stand on end'. [85][86][87][88]

Very few legitimate studies hav e been done on ASMR, and none hav e discussed the link between it and frisson
specifically . At this time, much of the data on ASMR comes from primarily anecdotal sources.

Association with sexuality

There hav e been persistent efforts by many of those who form the 'ASMR community ' to distinguish the euphoric
sensation that characterizes ASMR from sexual arousal, and to differentiate v ideo media created with intent to
trigger it from pornography . [89][90]

Meanwhile, some journalists and commentators hav e drawn attention to the way in which many v ideos made as
triggers are susceptible to being perceiv ed as sexually prov ocativ e in a number of way s. Firstly , the use of
objects as acoustic instruments and points of v isual focus, accompanied by a softly spoken v oice has been
described as fetishistic. Secondly , ASMR's potential appeal is further allegedly sexualized by their use of a
whispered v ocal expression and gentleness of simulated touch purportedly associated exclusiv ely with intimacy .
Howev er, there are both popular male and female 'ASMRtists'. [24][38][90][91][92][93][94][95]

In pop culture

Contemporary art
British artist Lucy Clout's single channel v ideo 'Shrugging Offing', made for exhibition in March 2013, uses the
model of online ASMR broadcasts as the basis for a work exploring the female body . [96][97]

Digital arts
The first digital arts installation specifically inspired by ASMR was by the American artist Julie Weitz and called
Touch Museum, which opened at the Y oung Projects Gallery on 13 February 2015, and comprised v ideo
screenings distributed throughout sev en rooms. [98][99][100][101]

Music
The music for Julie Weitz' Touch Museums digital arts installation was composed by Benjamin Wy nn under his
pseudony m 'Deru', and was the first musical composition specifically created for liv e ASMR arts ev ent. [98]

Subsequently , artists Sophie Mallett and Marie Toseland created 'a liv e binaural sound work' composed of ASMR
triggers, broadcast by Resonance FM, the listings for which adv ised the audience to 'listen with headphones for
the full sensory effect'. [102][103]

On 18 May 2015, contemporary composer Holly Herndon released an album called Platform which included a
collaboration with artist Claire Tolan named Lonely At The Top, intended to trigger
ASMR. [104][105][106][107][108][109][110]

The track "Brush" from Holly Pester's 2016 album and poetry collection Common Rest featured artist Claire
Tolan, exploring ASMR and its relation to lullaby . [111]

Film
There hav e been three successfully crowd funded projects, each based on proposals to make a film about ASMR:
two documentaries and one fictional piece. None of these films are currently completed. [112]

Fictional and creative literature

In March 2013, the American weekly hour-long radio program This American Life, produced by WBEZ and
hosted by Ira Glass, [113] broadcast the first short story on the subject of ASMR, called A Tribe Called Rest,
authored and read by American nov elist and screenwriter Andrea Seigel. [114]

Non-fiction
There is currently one non-fiction book on ASMR, part of the Idiot's Guide series. [52]

Statistics
In addition to the information collected from the 47 5 subjects who participated in the scientific inv estigation
conducted by Nick Dav ies and Emma Barratt, [4] there hav e been two attempts to collate statistical data
pertaining to the demographics, personal history , clinical conditions, and subjectiv e experience of those who
report susceptibility to ASMR.

Firstly , in December 2012, Craig Richard – a blogger on the subject of ASMR – published the first results of a poll
comprising 12 questions that had receiv ed 161 respondents, followed by second results in August 2015 by which
time there were 47 7 responses. [115][116]

Lastly , in August 2014, Craig Richard, Jennifer Allen, and Karissa Burnett published a surv ey at Surv ey Monkey
that was rev iewed by Shenandoah Univ ersity Institutional Rev iew Board, and the Fuller Theological Seminary
School of Psy chology Human Studies Rev iew Committee. In September 2015, when the surv ey had receiv ed
13,000 responses, the publishers announced that they were analy zing the data with intent to publish the results.
No such publication or report is y et av ailable. [117][118]

See also
Flow
Stimming
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External links
"The ASMR Report" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160324054327/http://asmrr.org/). Archived from the original (htt
p://asmrr.org/) on 24 March 2016.
ASMR List - Alphabetical index of ASMR content creators (https://asmrlist.com/)
ASMR University - History, Art, & Science of ASMR (https://asmruniversity.com/)
ASMR.ca - Categorized ASMR videos, news and information (https://asmr.ca/)

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