Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms and shoulders? The experience is called frisson (pronounced free-sawn), a ...

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Have you ever heard soaring music or a heart-wrenching story and felt a rush of tingles over the surface of your body? If so, you've experienced a phenomenon called frisson. Pronounced "free-sawn," ...

Have you ever been jamming out to a phenomenal song and felt shivers run throughout your body that reach all the way up to the top of your head, extending into even your fingertips? If the answer is ...

Chills, thrills, even skin orgasms — these are some of the words people use to describe a sensation experts call “frisson” (pronounced free-SAWN), from the French word for “shiver.” In English, ...