{"id":5962,"date":"2014-03-28T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:58:51","slug":"asmr-dont-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2014\/03\/28\/asmr-dont-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"ASMR: Don’t ask"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago a nice man called Rhodri asked me about ASMR<\/a>. I didn’t know anything about the phenomenon, but I was willing to comment as an experimental psychologist. The interesting thing to me was that this is a subjective experience that many people seemed to recognise, but it had no official name (until people started calling it ASMR and finding each other on the internet). “Could this be a real thing?” asked Rhodri. “Sure” I said, it’s perfectly possible that something could be real (common across people, not based on imaging or lies) and yet scientifically invisible. Maybe, I thought, now someone will look into this phenomenon and find ways of measuring it.<\/p>\n

Since then, as far as I am aware, there hasn’t been any research on ASMR, but interest in the phenomenon grows and grows. I wrote a column about ASMR for the BBC<\/a>. There’s even a wikipedia page<\/a>, and yours truly is currently quoted near the top. Because of these I regularly have people with ASMR and assorted journalist types contacting me for my opinions on ASMR.<\/p>\n

It makes me kind of sad to say, but I actually have no further opinions on ASMR. I don’t have anything extra to say than I said to Rhodri and in my column<\/a>. I don’t follow the research on ASMR (if there is any now), and I have never done any research on ASMR. I only opened my big mouth in the first place because the thing that interests me is how subject experience is turned into social facts. As an experimental psychologist, that’s what I do and ASMR is an example of something that might be a real subjective experience that we can observe in the process of being turned into a socially accepted fact. That’s the thing that is interesting to me.<\/p>\n

Regretfully, I have to refuse all opportunities to talk about ASMR itself because I literally have nothing more to say. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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