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Cold stimulates a few responses of which hair erection is one. This is considered by most to be a legacy response from when body hair was thicker and thus a better insulator when the hairs stand up.

When the environment is warm a person might still be stimulated by fear, shock, or surprise. Anything that gives you goosebumps is stimulating each affected hair's erector pili muscle to contract.

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