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How Konstantina Kilteni Turned the Mystery of Tickles into Award-Winning Science

23 September 2026 News item

Try tickling yourself. Go on, give it a try. It does not work, does it? But why? Why can we laugh until we cry when someone else tickles us, but feel nothing when we do it to ourselves?

Child reading the newspaper hanging upside down in the playground

Good news for children isn’t about sugar-coating things, but about simplifying them

29 September 2026 Research news item

Voor het evenement Taal is een spiegel van (on)gelijkheid bespraken we met Kleemans haar favoriete nieuwskopverbeteringen van Zoë Papaikonomou. Hoe zou zij die voor kinderen herschrijven?

Fresh laundry scent leads to higher spending on second-hand clothes

08 September 2026 Research news item

The scent of fresh laundry in a shop encourages people to spend more on second-hand clothes than the scent of citrus or the typical scent of second-hand clothes does. This is according to research by Radboud University.