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Why Do Certain Songs Give You Chills?
June 5, 2012 The "frissons" as we say down here south of I-10 are an instinctive reaction to certain strong emotions. The hypothalamus, which is a part of your brain, is in charge of these reactions and you get them for a lot of different reasons.Now that we've gotten some of the science out of the way, what songs or situations give you the frissons?