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  2. Goose bumps - Wikipedia

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    Goose bumps are accompanied by a specific physiological response pattern that is thought to indicate the emotional state of being moved. [15] In humans, goose bumps occur everywhere on the body, including the legs, neck, and other areas of the skin that have hair. In some people, they even occur in the face or on the head.

  3. Why do we get goosebumps? Experts explain - AOL

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  4. Why Do We Get Goosebumps? - AOL

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    Horripilation is the technical term for goosebumps. They got their name because they look like the skin of a plucked bird. Goosebumps have a practical purpose for animals. When an animals’ hair ...

  5. Why do we get goosebumps? Experts explain - AOL

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    Goosebumps occur when the body releases hormones that tighten the tiny muscles surrounding the roots of your body hair, Dr. Jen Caudle tells Yahoo Life. This tightening causes the hairs on your ...

  6. Frisson - Wikipedia

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    Piloerection (goose bumps), the physical part of frisson. Frisson (UK: / ˈ f r iː s ɒ n / FREE-son, US: / f r iː ˈ s oʊ n / free-SOHN [1] [2] French:; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals [3]) that often induces a pleasurable or ...

  7. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Goose bumps are an example of a vestigial human reaction to stress. The formation of goose bumps in humans under stress is a vestigial reflex ; a possible function in the distant evolutionary ancestors of humanity was to raise the body's hair, making the ancestor appear larger and scaring off predators.

  8. Experts Explain the Wild Reason We Get Goosebumps - AOL

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    Goosebumps are a strange evolutionary phenomenon triggered by cold temperatures and intense emotions. They’re also experienced by animals. Experts explain why.

  9. Vestigial response - Wikipedia

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    The sudden startled arm-jerking response sometimes experienced when on the verge of sleeping is known as the hypnic jerk.. The evolutionary explanation for the existence of the hypnic jerk is unclear, but a possibility is that it is a vestigial reflex humans evolved when they usually slept in trees.