Melina Delanghe is a graduate student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium. She is pursuing her Master’s Degree in psychology in the Department of Biological & Cognitive Psychology.
For her Master’s Thesis, she decided to do an ASMR research project with Dr. Elke Van Hoof as her faculty advisor.
She investigated the ability of ASMR videos to affect the heart rates of individuals diagnosed as Highly Sensitive Persons and also in a control group.
Michelle Woodall is a Counselor and Psychotherapist in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
She has her B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics with a Certificate of Counseling from the University of Birmingham, along with a Diploma in Person Centred Counseling from the University of Warwick.
Michelle’s areas of focus include depression and/or anxiety in the Highly Sensitive Person.
She recently wrote a series of articles about the Highly Sensitive Person which included ASMR. I reached out to Michelle to learn more about the term Highly Sensitive Person and how it may relate to ASMR.
Anna Zajac is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. She is in her final year as a Psychology Major and is working as a research assistant at her university.
In addition, she is an intern at Sensum Co., a marketing research company which specializes in neuromarketing.
Anna has teamed up with Dr. Jonathan Rolison to do her senior dissertation thesis on ASMR. She has decided to apply her research skills and computer software experience to investigate the relationship of ASMR with flow states and highly sensitive person traits.
In my interview with Anna she shares her inspiration for doing a research project on ASMR, the objectives of her project, advice to others considering doing research on ASMR, and more.
Below are my questions in bold, her replies in italics, and links to learn more about her and her thesis supervisor. Continue reading
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