Frisson
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO REWARDING AUDITORY OR VISUAL STIMULI
Frission; Frissons; Musical chill; Musical chills; Aesthetic chill; Aesthetic chills; Skin orgasm; Skin orgasms
Frisson ( , ; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, and rituals) that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively-valenced affective state and transient paresthesia (skin tingling or chills), sometimes along with piloerection (goose bumps) and mydriasis (pupil dilation).