Maleeha Zaman

Maleeha is a fourth-year Cognitive Science major at UCLA minoring in Digital Humanities. 

Maleeha enjoys listening to ASMR as background noise while she studies or when she needs something to relax. She first discovered ASMR in high school through Youtube and has recently rediscovered it in more comedic formats, quickly finding it to be addictive. She enjoys various kinds of ASMR, particularly enjoying makeup and medical exam ASMR, and chose to analyze ASMR for this project to understand and educate about its history and psychological effects. Her current favorite ASMRtist is Maya Winky ASMR.

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Chelsea Wan

Chelsea is a fourth-year Cognitive Science major at UCLA minoring in Digital Humanities and Professional Writing.

Chelsea is an avid listener of ASMR and is constantly surprised and impressed by the creative lengths ASMRtists go to create new content and find new triggers. She first learned about ASMR in middle school via Wikipedia, and thought it was just a weird little corner of the Internet. However, she learned of its appeal years later when she began listening to it to fall asleep in high school, and decided to analyze ASMR for this project to both learn more about it and to spread more awareness about what it is. Her favorite ASMRtist is Dana ASMR.