I still do not understand the words Why does the baby laugh out loud?

ByAndrew Vargas

I do not know exactly why the baby who should not understand even hear the joke still remember the words and laugh with a crying voice is currently unknown. Research results have been published that investigated what such a baby is reacting to and laughing.

The Baby Laughter project | The science of laughing babies. Dr Caspar Addyman, Goldsmiths Infantlab
http://babylaughter.net/


BBC - Future - Why do babies laugh out loud?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150728-why-do-babies-laugh-out-loud

I advocated evolution theoryCharles DarwinAnd founder of psychoanalysisSigmund FreudAlthough it is known that he studied about the reason why the baby laughs, why the historical scholars showed interest in "laugh of baby", but why the baby who does not remember the word got a laugh Yes I do not know yet.

Freud says "Laugh when a person gains a sense of superiority" because humans may laugh or gain satisfaction by looking at comical blunderings and accidents that others have caused. It was. Also, a psychologist who left great accomplishments in human development researchJean PiagetIt seems that studying why the baby laugh was an important indicator to know how the baby understands the world.

Meanwhile, in modern psychology, the research subject "baby laughter" is not popular, and it is said to have been ignored. Caspar Addyman of the University of London is one of the few researchers conducting global research on such infant research. We are doing research to collect and analyze questionnaires "when, where, why and where did the baby laugh" from parents who have over 1,000 babies worldwide via the website.

According to the survey results gathered, the first time a baby makes "smile" is about 6 weeks old, the first time to start laughing is about 3 1/2 months to 1 year after birth. It is before walking and talking to get up and laugh. Also worldwide, "I do not have" is the winning way to make the baby laugh, and many parents have reported that the baby laughs due to "tickling".

However, it is important that the baby laughs "when you are with someone else" and "when someone else is smiling." It is hard to laugh when you just hide and show a toy, and it makes me laugh when adults are hidden and visible, so it is seen that people around me feel "fun" when I do something. From this, it is considered that the baby tickled and laughing is not laughing only with the physical reaction "ticklish" but is getting laughing because "an adult is tickling herself" .

ByDonnie Ray Jones

A baby is more likely to laugh when he / she falls than to see someone's falling, or when people around me are happier than when the people around me are sad, unpleasant or surprised It tends to be easier to laugh than you know. Also, although some boys are easier to laugh than girls, it seems that they will laugh as much when they find their mother and father, regardless of gender. Because these trends are different from Freud's "laughter due to superiority", it means that the baby's laughter is caused by different factors.

Addyman will continue to recruit questionnaires from around the world to clarify how the developing baby understands the world, although it is not clearly clear why the baby who can not speak makes me laugh I plan to go. According to Addyman, it is difficult to pick up the research theme "Laugh of baby" because there is a problem that it is difficult to make a baby certainly laugh in the research laboratory environment, and we are going to work on the next project to clear it .