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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12756
I love that researchers are still doing studies on tickling. This paper, published just last month, is a study done in a university in Norway, where a bunch of college-aged volunteers were tickled by feathers all over their bodies while wearing swimsuits/bikinis (hilarious, and kinda hot tbh!).
The researchers found that females laughed more than males, and people in general feel more ticklish with the opposite sex tickling them, highlighting the sociocultural nature of reactions to tickling.
They also produced the following map of ticklish areas:
What do y'all think?
I love that researchers are still doing studies on tickling. This paper, published just last month, is a study done in a university in Norway, where a bunch of college-aged volunteers were tickled by feathers all over their bodies while wearing swimsuits/bikinis (hilarious, and kinda hot tbh!).
The researchers found that females laughed more than males, and people in general feel more ticklish with the opposite sex tickling them, highlighting the sociocultural nature of reactions to tickling.
They also produced the following map of ticklish areas:
What do y'all think?