Tickling

Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The word  "tickle"  evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly. The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted.

In 1897, psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin described a "tickle" as two different types of phenomena. One type is caused by very light movement across the skin. This type of tickle, called a knismesis, generally does not produce laughter and is sometimes accompanied by an itching sensation.

The question as to why a person could not tickle themselves was raised by the Greek philosopher Aristotle.

Francis Bacon and Charles Darwin believed that humorous laughter requires a "light" frame of mind. But they differed on ticklish laughter: Darwin thought that the same light state of mind was required, whereas Bacon said no. When tickled, noted Bacon, "men even in a grieved state of mind, yet cannot sometimes forbear laughing."

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