All you know ticklish
Are you ticklish? Scientists reckon that 80 people out of every hundred are — and they still don’t know the reason why. Recently, three scientists went through an American hospital armed with feathers and sprigs of cotton wool tickling everyone they could find. Dr Bland Maddux, Dr Mark Rich, and Dr Lorna Henry are respectively a psychoanalyst, skin specialist and a psychologist. Their aim was to find out how tickle prone we are, and at what age we first respond, as well as getting to know more about tickling in general. Working in the Charles Cottone Hospital, Chicago, the team went first to the paediatric wards tickling a variety of young babies aged from just a few hours up to eleven days. Then they tickled young children between six months and four years of age.
Next they turned their tickling techniques on to parents visiting the hospital, and then they tried all the doctors and nurses and other staff.
After running out of
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Press, 6 February 1986, Page 12
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166All you know ticklish Press, 6 February 1986, Page 12
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