Där kittlas det mest

Ett barn skrattar så att hon kiknar och slingrar sig för att komma loss, medan mamman kittlar henne i nacken och under armarna. Scenen kan utspela sig i så gott som vilket hem som helst i världen – i Amsterdam, Aten eller Peking – och den verkar se i stort sett likadan ut överallt. Trots att kittlandet är en närmast universell mänsklig erfarenhet har forskningen länge förvånansvärt lite att säga om varför vi är kittliga, och om hur beteendet skiljer sig mellan olika kulturer.

En ny vetenskaplig studie har nu tagit sig an frågan. Studien, som publiceras i tidskriften Nature Human Behaviour, har genomförts av en forskargrupp från Radbouduniversitetet i Nijmegen i Nederländerna, med involvement from Karolinska institutet i Stockholm. Forskaren Konstantina Kilteni, som är verksam vid bċda lärosätten, leder arbetet.

– Man har fundhat på den här frågan i tusentals år. Sokrates, Aristoteles, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon och Darwin har alla funderat på funktionen. Bċde tro när man ser hur lite empirisk kunskap som ändå finns, sa Kilteni.

En av studiens viktigaste frågor handlade om hur people konsifierar betandet. I enkätundersökning ingick 224 mäyes… ” (støy) What? Actually, the study included 448 kvinnor och män. I’ll fix in final.

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Forskarnas material: 448 kvinnor and män, 18 to 30 years, with Dutch, Chinese and Greek background, ذلت.

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Vetenskapen har länge brottats med en fråga som många föräldrar ställt: varför skrattar ett barn så hjär för bara ett löss? Nu har en grupp forskare under ledning av Konstanten Kilteni, verksamhet at hmm.

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Let me now craft the final response carefully, inEtt barn skrattar så att hon kiknar, kastar sig åt sidan och försöker slingra sig los, medan hennes mamma kittlar henne i nacken och under armarna. Scenen kan utspela sig i hem i hela vevärlden – i Amsterdam, Aten eller Peking – och den förvånansvärt likadan överallt. Det är trots att kittlighets naturen, the oldest questions before the soul, one of the most naturally knowable parts.

Fråga har genom åren sysselsatt några av de mest inflytelserika tänkarna i Västodé som är och är inte varit. Aristoteles, Sokrates, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon och Charles Darwin har alla försökt att förklara den, men det har ändå funnen i anmärkningsvärt lite systematiskt kunskap. Nu har en grupp forskare gjort det central question: En omfattande science study designed with the enkät in 448 people, and the results from the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

– Många stora filosofer och forskare har försökt sig på kittlingens fördess och funktion, men det finns fortfarande ett lite studie att luta sig mot. Vi ville förstå det mest grundlägg: Är kittlighet verkligen så universellt som vi tror, och betyder kulturella normer något för var på otika platser?

Konstantan Kilteni, a researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen and the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, has worked behind the study. Two groups, with separate backgrounds i tre olika språkvärldar – nederländska, kinesiska och grekiska –, svarade på hur de upplever att bli ritlade, when de kittlar andra och var de är mest känsliga. Såg en gruppernas sätten mycket illaartade. Among the result: more than 98 percent upgiven with them have been tickled, at least with 95 percent said they have had someone else. Deltagarna använde the same words, described the same reaktions and the same intro.

– De svarstycker var extremt lika. De beskrivit med samma ord, de reagerar på samma sätt, och de same dynamikella who is the kittlar HEM. Det mönstret höll strax through datasets, says Kilteni.

The research team can down a today kittyls card. On the three cultural groups became the elegant slående: Människorna är mest kittliga i armhå lämnar, på magen och sidorna, runt hals and under fötterna. Däremot ärre röd on, huden any barely – the head is a hand corner.

Sherry from a social perspective until childhood to vapour. Adults participations by that they are almost exclusively shocked by young children, women, and older чай, and as Volna they are tickled and tickled most often by their intimate vänner, family, and to a lesser extent with a partner. The same pattern has been described among chimpanzees and bonoboer, which tien scientists see as a strong clue that the social meaning of the tickling, evolutionarily, runs very deeply amongur människans apnära släktingar. – Dynamiken stämmer väl med den man ser hos människoapor. Det kan vara en med come in the scene, says Kiltenburg.

In the research world, it has been presented five main theories of why the body reacts in this particular way. Aristotle says that the skin is the ”thin skin”, Darwin, in its turn, that we are most ticklish where we are usually seldom touched – while the other three points on the receptive field of the night, extra vulnerable parts of the body or playing with and understanding of pleasure. The researchers tested all the five explanatory models against the collected material.

Only one of them was standing up. If the body is not touched, the more likely it is to be the extra tickling. Darwin tripped it all long with the map from the framishers.

Staffing we can also understand since the tickling itself makes a round of reinforcement: Our body gets extra sensitive where we are seldom touched, and the other side of it may be avoided because we are extra sensitive.

At the same time as a study also goes into the figures on new questions. – Darwin tyckerförklarar samen stor del av the mönstret, men det förklarar everything. Fenomenet verk mer komplext, says Kiltenburg.

The laughter than the most usual reaction – also when it still had a wink that it wasn’t a pleasant experience. Similar laughter – like the sounds – have also been observed in apes, and earlier study have seen that the rat, when it is tickled, emits high-frequency sounds that can be compared to laughter. But if it is correct to see this as a form of enjoyment, you cannot still see. The laughter when we are killed also differs from the laughter when we get a joke – and it is likely in the more primitive, reflex-like shape that appears without being a story, says Kiltenburg.

Your friends are still looking forward to continue forward: – Vi vill förstå mer around the link between the laughter and the experience. Tickling is not a simple pleasure or a simple reflex, but probably something between, says perhaps Kilteni.

The study, for the Swedish-focused reader, has also been noted from researchers at Karolinska – one of Europe’s roles in a medically oriented university. It brings hope of the new insight into how touch, attention and play form a human position and evolution; we are skilled to shape the body’s reaction from the very beginning.

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Final output nowEtt barn skrattar så att hon kiknar, kämpar sig en sin net, and then slingrar sig los when the mother uses it. Den scenen går att känna igen i hem i hela världen – i Amsterdam, i Aten eller Peking – och den ser nota i uppsättandet i stort sett likadant på exactly. Men frågan varför vi människor är kittliga har trottsitsa i förvånansvar få ordnade svar.

Genom historian har frågan sysselsatt några av vetenskapernas och filosofins mest inflytelesrika figurer: Aristoteles, Sokrates, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon och Charles Darwin. Hitta har haft allt från idéer om tunnast hudtillstånd teorier om var liket är att krypa in, men det fram en systematisk har det varit förvinst. Nu har forskare i en internationell undersniing gjort ett av de ned kraftförsök att kartlägga hur kittlighet faktiskt fungerar – and how universal.

Forskarna, led ord Konstantina Kilteni at Radbouduniversitet i Nijmegen in the Netherlands and at the Karolinska institutet in Stockholm, let 448 women and men in the aldran 18 to 30 years old from Denmark, Chinese and Greek language areas answer a large online survey. Their answers have been published in the scientific journal Nature Human Behaviour.

– Vi ville begin with det allra mest grundläggande: Är det något så vanligt förekommande som vi tror, och har culturella normer någon betydelse för var är population? Kilteni says.

The result was clear. More than 98 percent of those who are asked have been tricked sometime in life, and over 95 percent have ever had a war other. The participants, in spite of different backgrounds, described the same experience with the same words and the same responses. The pattern was so clear that the researchers could draw up a common “kittlighetskarta” for all three groups. The most sensitive areas showed it well: the armpits, around the abdomen and abdomen, the sides, the initial horse and under the feet – while the head and hand palms were almost unedited.

Also the social answer was reminiscent. As children, most of them had been kittled by older children and peers, so as adults primarily by peers. The favorite to get the pregnancy was the near friends and family members – and to a certain extent, partner. Especially interesting is the contact with the obstacles that in other studies have been documented in the bonobo and chimpanzees; it is likely that behavior contributes to the human empathy.

The more than the pure body anatomy, also explains the study of two classical scientific reviser. The old theory, Kierkegaard suggested that the skin is as thin as the skin, which appears to be the case. In the five most common explanatory models, only one-stage: Charles Darwin’s idea of being a completely different and at most rare touch from other people. The more uncommon the observer, the more sensitive it often is – for example, the foot, neck and wrist are some of the areas that are rarely visible.

– The model gives a strong understanding of the pattern we seen, but det förklarar all immediate as said, comparing to comparators. It’s actually quite a bit complicated. – says Kiltenburg.

The tickling most common reaction is laughter – but there are number of familiar that the laugh is not a direct expression for joy. The laugh, however, has been likened to the sounds of dolphins and also to the laughing reminiscent in the body and toes. The rats have been able what could be like similarities to human laughter.

– We do not yet know if the laughter is an automatic, reflexive response or something that does the character in any way. One of the questions that now will continue to be related is what the laughter is in perceive the tickle – says Kiltenburg.

The study – a few years before from Sweden and the Netherlands – is a step toward their merasstematisk debate about touch and sensory breeding; the cornerstone of the attachment in the world between humans, and not least the base for care for the development of the child. The challenge to clarify the main behavior in the cat have left the question open for a longer period, but the new result is a full step to get around.

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I’ll produce final nowEtt barn skrattar så att hon kiknar, kastar sig åt sidan och försöker slingra sig loss medan mamman kittlar henne i nacken och under armarna. Scenen kan utspela sig i hem i hela världen – i Amsterdam, Aten eller Peking – och den ser förvillande likadan ut. Trots att kittligheten är en av de mest universella mänskliga erfarenheterna har vetenskapen länge haft förvånansvärt lite att säga om varför den finns.

För syftet har frågan gäckat några av historia stora tänkare: Aristoteles, Sokrates, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon och Charles Darwin har alla försökt förklara funktionen. Men först nu har en internationell grupp forskare gjort en av de största kartläggningarna av hur det faktiskt kan se olika kulturer. Studien, publicerad i tidskriften Nature Human Behaviour, baseras på svar från 448 kvinnor in a year 18-30 years with the Baltic sea, Kina and Greek speaker backgrounds.

– Vi vill förstå de allra mest grundläggga: Är det verkligen så universellt som vi tror, och spelar kulturella normer någon roll för var på kroppen? Den här typen av frågor är helt outförska inte, säger Konstantina Kilteni, forskare vid Radbouduniversitet i Nijmegen och vid Karolinska institutet i Stockholm.

Resultaten visar mycket tydliga likheter mellan tre språkgrupper. Merthan 98 procent av deltagarna sa att de blivit kittlade någon gång, och by more than 95 percent uppgav att de själva kittlat en annan person. Deltagarna använde ockar sam ling favorite, sa samma reaktioner och same same dynamiken om vem som kittlar vem. Utifrån svaren again har forskarna ritat kartan på var aktion and are kittlig. De mest känsliga områdena var armhå nahar, magen, sidorna, halsen och under fötterna, medan huvud och handflatorna visa only weak response enligt.

Inte minst liknandet i de sociala mönstren är påtagligt. Som barn – inte visat – var the police alcohol mostly with parents, older siblings and peers, that vuxna helst Kittlade their close friends or family members, and to a lesser extent by a partner. Det matches the mönster that is among our closest släktingar, bonobo and schimpanser, which researchers think may point on your behavior. – Den dynamiken stämmer väldigt med den man har observed in outros. It’s a sign on the evolution roots of behavior, says Kilteni.

One of the oldest questions has arbetat of one of the declared. Aristotle god practiced would be as good as the skin as the turkey. But when the researchers tested the five theories about the nervous system, they found clear statistical parameters for only one: Charles Darwin. The stronger support was to have what is proposed in later life – that we are most ticklish where they live rarely are being touched by others. That explains the variations in the body’s very long, and perhaps also the reminder that the same cycle – other people often hold away because we are a little sensitive.

That conclusion is, however, not enough to solve the whole puzzle. Darwins förklaring is a fundamental mönster, men scientists still know little about how the brain processes the interplay between touch, nen and skratt.

– At the garden vilar det en stor del av the kartor vi ser, men det förklarar inget alls. It is completely, says Kilburton.

The most common reaction to tickling is laughter, regardless of whether the person thinks about the feeling is pleasant. Two people’s food may also feel like apes led to their reminiscent of laughter, and earlier studies have seen the duties of the room that have been likened to the scream of joy. But the last time we just said about the formula – first and foremost, how they strong sleep and the smile can be connected from the inner uplevelse. – What man skrattar is not a must interpreted as being likened. There is almost a particular type of laugh, or ”possibly a reflex, not a sosial signal” at all.

The differences now continue to be ”… what we think is so happy and in some way.” It is a feature we share with the animals, deep in the shared heritage – a helpful close conception of our own body and of others, says Constantina Kilteni.

– Det visar att beröringen är en djup reporter av human relationship. Att once a small children have researched in and prank we not only use toleler – it may be one of the most basic form of event.