Tickling, the Glossary
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter.[1]
Table of Contents
84 relations: Abdomen, Action potential, Adolescence, American Journal of Psychology, Aristotle, Authoritarianism, Axilla, Axon, Brain, Brian Sutton-Smith, Buttocks, Cerebellum, Cerebral cortex, Charles Darwin, Chronic pain, Cognitive science, Combat, Consensual tickling, Cotton, Cutting, Developmental psychology, Evolution, Feeling, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Foot, Francis Bacon, Frequentative, G. Stanley Hall, Galileo Galilei, Gavin Yamey, Gender, Goose bumps, Greenery Press, Haptic perception, Havelock Ellis, Heinz Heger, Human bonding, Human nose, Hypothalamus, Intimate relationship, Joystick, Karolinska Institute, Knee, Knismesis and gargalesis, Laughter, Leisure, Limb (anatomy), Magnetic resonance imaging, Middle English, Midriff, ... Expand index (34 more) »
Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
Action potential
An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell rapidly rises and falls.
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Adolescence
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority).
American Journal of Psychology
The American Journal of Psychology is a journal devoted primarily to experimental psychology.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
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Axilla
The axilla (axillae or axillas; also known as the armpit, underarm or oxter) is the area on the human body directly under the shoulder joint.
Axon
An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body.
Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
Brian Sutton-Smith
Brian Sutton Smith (July 15, 1924 – March 7, 2015), better known as Brian Sutton-Smith, was a play theorist who spent his lifetime attempting to discover the cultural significance of play in human life, arguing that any useful definition of play must apply to both adults and children.
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Buttocks
The buttocks (buttock) are two rounded portions of the exterior anatomy of most mammals, located on the posterior of the pelvic region.
Cerebellum
The cerebellum (cerebella or cerebellums; Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates.
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Chronic pain
Chronic pain or chronic pain syndrome is a type of pain that is also known by other titles such as gradual burning pain, electrical pain, throbbing pain, and nauseating pain.
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
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Combat
Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict between multiple combatants with the intent to harm the opposition.
Consensual tickling
Consensual tickling or tickling fetish refers to any instance of tickling in which the party being tickled has given consent to the party providing the tickling to do so.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
Cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Feeling
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; and feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them".
Flossenbürg concentration camp
Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
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The foot (feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
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Frequentative
In grammar, a frequentative form (abbreviated or) of a word is one that indicates repeated action but is not to be confused with iterative aspect.
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G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century.
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
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Gavin Yamey
Gavin Mark Yamey is a British-American physician and global health researcher.
Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
Goose bumps
Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose-pimples (also called chill bumps) are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.
Greenery Press
Greenery Press is an American publishing house based in Emeryville, California, specializing in books on BDSM (particularly femdom) and polyamory, with over 50 titles in print.
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Haptic perception
Haptic perception (italics "palpable", haptikόs "suitable for touch") means literally the ability "to grasp something".
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Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English-French physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality.
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Heinz Heger
Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) was an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality.
Human bonding
Human bonding is the process of development of a close interpersonal relationship between two or more people.
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Human nose
The human nose is the first organ of the respiratory system.
Hypothalamus
The hypothalamus (hypothalami) is a small part of the vertebrate brain that contains a number of nuclei with a variety of functions.
Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love.
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Joystick
A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.
Karolinska Institute
The Karolinska Institute (KI; Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally.
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Knee
In humans and other primates, the knee joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two joints: one between the femur and tibia (tibiofemoral joint), and one between the femur and patella (patellofemoral joint).
Knismesis and gargalesis
Knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms, coined in 1897 by psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin, used to describe the two types of tickling.
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Laughter
Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system.
Leisure
Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.
Limb (anatomy)
A limb (from Old English lim, meaning "body part") is a jointed, muscled appendage of a tetrapod vertebrate animal used for weight-bearing, terrestrial locomotion and physical interaction with other objects.
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Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Midriff
In fashion, the midriff is the human abdomen.
Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
Neck
The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso.
Nerve
A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system.
Nicholas Christenfeld
Nicholas Christenfeld is a former professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego until his dismissal in 2019.
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Pain
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli.
Paraphilia
A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.
Perineum
The perineum (perineums or perinea) in mammals is the space between the anus and the genitals.
Pillow fight
A pillow fight is a common game mostly played by young children (but also by teens and adults) in which they engage in mock physical conflict, using pillows as weapons.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Play (activity)
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.
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Primate
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.
Psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.
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Reflex
In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus.
Rib cage
The rib cage or thoracic cage is an endoskeletal enclosure in the thorax of most vertebrates that comprises the ribs, vertebral column and sternum, which protect the vital organs of the thoracic cavity, such as the heart, lungs and great vessels and support the shoulder girdle to form the core part of the axial skeleton.
Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Scratch reflex
The scratch reflex is a response to activation of sensory neurons whose peripheral terminals are located on the surface of the body.
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Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
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Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a subset of the sensory nervous system responsible for the perception of touch.
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Spinal cord injury
A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function.
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Startle response
In animals, including humans, the startle response is a largely unconscious defensive response to sudden or threatening stimuli, such as sudden noise or sharp movement, and is associated with negative affect.
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Surprise (emotion)
Surprise is a rapid, fleeting, mental and physiological state.
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The Assayer
The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) is a book by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October 1623.
The BMJ
The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).
The Straight Dope
The Straight Dope was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams.
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Thigh
In anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee.
Tickle torture
Tickle torture is the prolonged use of tickling to abuse, dominate, harass, humiliate, or interrogate an individual.
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Torso
The torso or trunk is an anatomical term for the central part, or the core, of the body of many animals (including humans), from which the head, neck, limbs, tail and other appendages extend.
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
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Vestigiality
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.
Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction.
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
Yngve Zotterman
Yngve Zotterman (20 September 1898 in Vadstena – 13 March 1982 in Stockholm) was a Swedish neurophysiologist who received his medical training at the Karolinska Institute.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickling
Also known as Self-tickling, Tickle, Tickle fight, Tickle fighting, Tickles, Ticklish, Ticklishness, Tickly.
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