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The science of baby laughter
Caspar Addyman,Ishbel Addyman +1 more
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The Baby Laughter project (http://babylaughter.net) as discussed by the authors uses online surveys and parent submitted videos to study baby laughter, and the results show that the topics of infant laughter track other cognitive developments, that it is an important form of communication and bond between parent and child and a marker of social and emotional engagement.Abstract:
‘The Baby Laughter’ project (http://babylaughter.net) is a research programme in developmental psychology that uses online surveys and parent submitted videos to study baby laughter. We discuss how infant laughter has been neglected in the study of both humour and of developmental psychology. We describe our surveys and research methodology, together with some of the questions we hope they can address. Some preliminary results are presented together with illustrative comments from parents who took part. These results show that the topics of infant laughter track other cognitive developments, that it is an important form of communication and bond between parent and child and a marker of social and emotional engagement. We conclude by suggesting that the highly important role of laughter in early development has until now been underestimated.read more
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Social Facilitation of Laughter and Smiles in Preschool Children.
TL;DR: Children’s responses to amusing video clips in the presence or absence of peers suggests that the presence of even a single social partner can change behavior in response to humorous material, and supports the idea that laughter and smiles are primarily flexible social signals rather than reflexive responses to humor.
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Two-Year-Olds Distinguish Pretending and Joking
Elena Hoicka,Catriona Martin +1 more
TL;DR: 2-year-olds protest against jokes more than pretending, suggesting, for the first time, they distinguish these acts, and a pretend intentional context establishes specific rules to be followed, whereas a joke intentional context allows an open space to perform various types of acts.
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Humor and preschoolers’ trust: Sensitivity to changing intentions
TL;DR: This research demonstrates that preschoolers (a) avoid trusting informants with humorous intentions when learning novel information and (b) flexibly consider current intentions rather than initial intentions when determining who to trust.
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
TL;DR: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Introduction to the First Edition and Discussion Index, by Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman.
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Jokes and their relation to the unconscious
Sigmund Freud,James Strachey +1 more
Abstract: While in this book Freud tells some good stories with his customary verve and economy, its point is wholly serious
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Studying infant temperament via the Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaire
TL;DR: The Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised (IBQ-R) as discussed by the authors was developed to measure parent-reported measures of infant temperament, including nine new scales and minor modifications of the seven scales of the IBQ.
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Visual Experience in Infants: Decreased Attention to Familiar Patterns Relative to Novel Ones
TL;DR: A complex visual pattern presented for ten successive 1-minute exposure periods was fixated progressively less than comparable novel stimuli by infants 2 to 6 months old, suggesting that familiarization with the environment begins through visual exploration before more active exploration is possible.