There are many forms of touch in the human vocabulary, like caresses, squeezes, slaps, and pinches. Yet there’s only one type of touch known to routinely elicit laughter: tickling. From the time we’re ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that ...

Tickling may seem like child's play, but scientists are beginning to see it as something much deeper—a complex puzzle tied to human touch, laughter, and brain development. The sensation of being ...

How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientist Konstantina Kilteni from the Donders Institute argues in ...