Benjamin Thompson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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Like where it's thinner or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Charles Darwin, though, his his idea was that areas that are touched the least are most ticklish.
And it turns out that the factor that showed significant association with ticklishness was this idea by Darwin.
So it doesn't explain all of it, but the evidence is that that's
Evidence is
That seems to be at least a part of it.
And the authors say that perhaps there's kind of a surprise based mechanism going on here because areas that are rarely touched, maybe like your feet, you're more surprised if someone does and so
It feels ticklish.
And that's right, because you two parts of your brain are working at once.
You know the feeling of touch and also the act of you going to do it.
But they also say that maybe there's kind of a self reinforcing mechanism here.
Some areas are ticklish because they're rarely touched, and they're rarely touched because they're ticklish.
I mean it does make sense, but I have to say this is not a cut and dried thing.
I mean they've only tested three cultural groups here.
They didn't test situational context.
But as you say there, people d often enjoy tickling kind of innately, and it does seem like it is this conserved.
thing.
So whether it plays a role in social bonding or or protection, like your armpits, you know, there's a lot of blood vessels there that could be damaged, for example.
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