Ticklish spots are shared across cultures, but why they are ticklish is more complex than it seems

Phys.org reports on new research from Radboud University and Karolinska Institutet published in Nature Human Behaviour, finding that ticklishness works the same way across different cultures. People everywhere laugh and resist when tickled in the same body regions, and tickling usually happens between family members or close friends.

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