Dear Science: Why do we only laugh when someone else tickles us? Why can’t I tickle myself? Your question touches on one of the great mysteries of the human mind. No joke. Our inability to tickle ...

Socrates wondered 2,000 years ago, and Charles Darwin also racked his brains: what is a tickle, and why are we so sensitive to tickling? ‘Tickling is relatively under-researched,’ says neuroscientist ...

A surprise tickle attack, especially in sensitive areas like the armpits, torso, or soles of the feet, can send most people into uncontrollable laughter as they squirm away, while others might stay ...

The Sundance documentary Tickled — summarized with the logline “a New Zealand reporter accidentally stumbles upon an underground competitive tickling contest” — sounded like a barrel of laughs. But ...

Researchers in Australia tickled the rodents every day for a month to see if it would improve their emotional well-being. By Yan Zhuang MELBOURNE, Australia — It’s generally not a good time to be a ...