Similar to licking your elbow or sneezing while keeping your eyes open, you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself. While some of you are busy looking for a feather to test this theory out, ...

I have just discovered a profoundly human, evolutionarily crucial fact about the new baby in our house: He likes to be tickled. This isn’t a joke. For centuries, the deepest of thinkers—Aristotle, ...

Can you tickle yourself if you are fooled into thinking that someone else is tickling you? A new experiment says no, challenging a widely accepted theory about how our brains work. Jakob Hohwy and ...