In layman's terms, when you're cold, the body tries to make a thicker layer of trapped air around your body to hold your body heat. The body does this by causing the hairs on your body to stand up and create this body heat trap. It probably worked better when we humans had more hair. Erector pillae, also called arrector pili, are the muscles that contract to cause your hair to stand up or "goose bumps."
It helps your hairs stand up on your skin so that the hair will make your body warmer.
I think that you get goose-bumps when you're scared or something. Some people get cold when they're scared. I think that's why. It's a genetic hold-over from a time when our bodies were covered with fur. When you got cold, it would automatically make the hairs on your body stand up to trap more air in the fur and make it a better insulator. Some people do get goose bumps when they're frightened, it's the the body trying to make itself look bigger to the enemy.
You get goosebumps when you're cold because the muscles that are in between your hairs in your skin tense. You know when you are cold, things contract. same with your muscles. So your tiny muscles that are attached to your hair on your skin contracts and pulls. which makes your skin have goosebumps.
When you get cold or chilly, you get goosebumps which actually is the act of your arm hairs sticking up to trap the heat that is on top of your skin. When it is trapped, it keeps your body warm. It is all enviormental adaptions I guess you could say.
Goosebumps are small lumps in which you get on your legs and arms. It happens when you're cold. Tiny muscles attached to the hairs flex and make the hairs stick up. This trap in the heat to make you warmer
its your body making hollow compartments under your skin to insulate yourself when its cold just like polar bears with their hollow hair fibers
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I think that more specifically, goosebumps are a throwback to when we were covered with fur, like polar bears in the example. But in modern man, the reaction is counter productive.
We get goosebumps when we are cold. If we were a polar bear that would make our fur stand on end, trap more air, achieve better insulation and we would become warmer. But in modern man, most of us have insufficient hair to do that job. Instead, the goosebumps increase our surface area and make us cool down more rapidly.
Somebody asked in the discussion why excitement causes goosebumps. I think this is because excitement and fear have the same primitive requirement: to make our hairs stand on end, to make us appear more scary to predators, as a warning to competitors (sexual competitors or otherwise), or perhaps more attractive to a potential mate. We talk about "bristling" when we get angry... surely it's this response.
When you get goosebumps you have little ponty dots.I hope i could help.
Animals with fur, when they get cold they raise the position of their hair to create a more insulating layer. With humans and our pathetic fur it rather seems like a wasted effort.
you get goosebumps when you are cold or sometimes scared but mostly when you are cold and they feel really bumpy.
Yes it is possible. I get goose bumps on my face very often, because I am a girl and have no hair on my face no hair raises. But my face gets a quick patch of bumps on my cheeks. I still haven't met anyone else who gets them! Yes, I get goosebumps on my face all the time. I get them when Im cold, and I know this is cheesy but my ex used to bite on my neck to give them to me on purpose. When I get the goosebumps it makes my face look like I have acne scars, on my cheeks then they just go away. Iam not hairy just normal peach fuzz, and I also have never met anyone else who gets them. I also get goosebumps on my face, and as the other person above says they do look like acne scars for the few seconds that they last :)
goosebumps are the result of an involuntary contraction of erector pilae muscles that are attached to the follicles of hair. They are triggered to contract in order to create an insulating structure when it is cold. Due to a human's lack of hair as compared to other primates, the function of this in temperature regulation is virtually futile.
it does not because goosebumps is just a nerve reaction it probably just makes you hair stand up . ^-^
Goose pumps are muscle contractions in the hair follicle that thake the hair stand up and inerweave on the skin. Provides insulation when you are chilled
skin has goosebumps on it that keep the temprature of are body constant .moreover skin release sweat that produces cooling affect and maintains body temprature.
No. You get goosebumps when you're cold.
People get goosebumps when they're cold, or thrilled. Goosebumps are caused by tiny muscles, controlled by nerves to keep you warm.
Goosebumps can only form where you have hair follicles. The bump is formed by the muscle causing the hair to stand up straight when you are cold or scared or whatever else causes you to get goosebumps. But on hairless areas of your body, you will not get goosebumps.
When some one is REALLY scared, or really cold.
because we get goose bumps is cause it like when your cold you feel the cold well it like you get scared
It depends on what kind-- Goosebumps, well, is when your either cold or afraid.
Because you feel strongly about someone.. ><
"Goosebumps" are a colloquial term for what is medically known as "cutis anserina." Completely harmless, goosebumps are simply small bumps that develop at the base of body hairs (we especially notice goosebumps on our arms and legs). Goosebumps form involuntarily when a person is cold, and may also form when they experience intense emotions such as fear.
Goosebumps are a natural reaction to cold temperatures or strong emotions such as fear or euphoria. Erector pili muscles attached to the hair follicles raise the hairs slightly. In response to cold, this traps heat among the hairs; as an animal response to danger, goosebumps cause the animal to appear larger and more threatening to a possible predator.
we all get goosebumps when it is cold because your skin sqeezes together to keep heat inside your body
If you get too cold, your brain alerts your body that it should take steps to warm up. Goosebumps are one of those signals. They're also an attempt to trap warm air next to your skin and let you hold on to your body heat.
He may want to hug you, or give you his jacket, or to find out if you are cold. If you're shivering or have goosebumps, he wants to know if you are cold. Don't overanalyze