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Baby Laughter survey scientific update

The first results of our global survey were presented at an infancy conference last July. I thought I'd posted them here but it seems I forgot (typical absentminded academic). Poster presented at International Conference for Infant Studies, Berlin, July 2014 The full academic write up will be even

Your Babies #030: Little Nina giggles as her brother clowns around

Tiny Nina is only 11 weeks old but she's already getting in on the family jokes. Here we see her laughing at the antics of her 4 year old brother. Who is, of course, more than willing to play the fool. Also present and enjoying themselves are her

New born babies - The missing manual.

Handle With Care from ticktockrobot on Vimeo. http://vimeo.com/video/63265878 New born babies - Handle With Care is an entertaining instructional by animator, director and first-time father Jun Iwakawa. New parents are confronted with an overwhelming amount of advice at a time when they are already overwhelmed by

Your babies #029: Daksh laughs..

Our latest laughing baby comes from Naveen and features his wife gently teasing his five month old son Daksh: In this video, my son (Daksh) is featured. every time his mom scares him to eat him away, he innocently laughs at her. This is so cute. On a hindsight, I

Why I study laughing babies

[I'm a psychologist working at Birkbeck Babylab studying how babies learn about the world. Recently, I've been looking at what makes them laugh. So going 'ooh' (and 'aah') is quite a big part of the job. The reason I study babies is

Children taking classes in empathy from babies - Danielle Batist, Contributoria

Danielle Batist has written a wonderful article on Mary Gordon's Roots of Empathy programme. A scheme which brings tiny babies into primary classrooms for children to learn from them: Crying for empathy: Babies as teachers in classrooms : June 2014 : Contributoria - the independent journalism network It's

BBC World Service - Babies' Minds

Babies' Minds Part of The Truth About Life and Death First broadcast: Wednesday 09 July 2014 Tiny babies are, from birth, active learners. They don’t wait for the world to come to them. Claudia Hammond explores the very latest research about what influences the developing mind of the

Your Babies #028: Giggles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO6NVwhqHQU

Babies trying lemons for the first time in slow motion

Pretty self-explanatory... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q5mgtUOI_w Babies trying lemons for the first time in slow motion.

Your Babies #027: Finn squeals with fear and delight

Enjoy this video of 2 year old baby Finn screaming with delighted terror as he races along on his little bike. If anything, I'd say he wanted to go faster. And like his dad says, you can bet he will love rollercoasters when he is older. Finn isn&

Bloomsbury - Home to laughing baby scientists since 1838

Laughing babies play an interesting role in the history of British Psychology. Over a hundred years ago they tickled the interest of Dr. James Sully, who worked just round the corner from Birkbeck Babylab at UCL, in Bloomsbury in London. In fact, Sully was founder of the UK's

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Easter Laughing Baby Hunt

Happy Easter, Help us with our research by finding laughing babies on YouTube. We love to see some examples of the following behaviours: 1. Shock turning to delight 2. A baby deliberately making an adult laugh 3. A baby laughing in anticipation of something (being tickled, etc.) * Bonus - A

Baby Frederick reads about himself in the Daily Mail

Baby Frederick from Warsaw, Poland has previously appeared on the site laughing at himself in the mirror. This was featured in the recent Daily Mail coverage of our project and we sent Frederick and his family a copy of the paper. His father, Maciej, just sent me this lovely photo

Want to be happy? Three simple lessons from laughing babies.

Want to be happy? Three simple lessons from laughing babies.

Today is International Happiness Day. As our small contribution we thought we'd share some wisdom from the happiest people on the planet, laughing babies. 1. People make us happy Laughter and happiness are best when shared. We laugh with our friends. The bond between baby and parent is

Welcome readers of the Daily Mail

Welcome readers of the Daily Mail

The baby laughter project was featured in the Daily Mail today. So if you saw us there, thank you for visiting our site. We hope you like our laughing babies and all the hard work they are doing for science. There are three ways you can help our research: 1.

Dinosaur Comics explains why babies are awesome

Dinosaur Comics - August 26th, 2013 - awesome fun times!. via @psychScientists]]>

Reasons My Son Is Crying - Tumblr blog

The baby laughter project appears to have an evil twin. This photoblog documents the many 'reasons' why toddlers cry. "I wouldn’t let him eat his yogurt with a pizza cutter." Submitted By: Nick L. Location: California, United States "She can’t fit into Dora’

Laughing Babies talk at London School of Laughter Yoga, Thursday 13th March

The surprisingly serious science of laughing babies Dr. Caspar Addyman, Birkbeck Babylab The laughter of little babies is infectious, enchanting and may play an important role in their early development. Dr. Caspar Addyman is a psychologist who studies what it is like to be a baby. After testing hundreds of

Baby leo visits Birkbeck Babylab. photos by Oli Scarff/Getty Images

What does the inside of a babylab look like?

Oli Scarff came to Birkbeck Babylab earlier this week to take a few photos for CBS News. Here are a few: These last two are from my latest time perception experiment: You can see the rest at CBS Online All images (c) Oli Scarff/Getty Images Mind you, not everyone

Meditating with your baby

Meditating with your baby

I've just finished reading John Kabat-Zinn's book Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. It contains a lovely passage about meditating with your baby. When we had babies in the house, even the morning time was up for grabs. You couldn&

It's good to talk.

Want to give your baby a head start then be sure to spend lots of time talking to him or her. I was once asked What are the most high-leverage activities I can do with my 1-2 year old to promote his mental and cognitive development? It's a

Your Babies #026: Laughing twins Lubabah & Zeyanah

You laugh more in company and even more with your best friends and loved ones. So the obvious question is, do twins laugh more than the rest of us? Let's examine some evidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft6llm_LLQ Lubabah and Zeyanah definitely seem to be

Toddlers discovering their own shadows

Found at Gizmodo: Watching kids discover their own shadow is surprisingly fun.

How to make a baby

How to make a baby

How to Make a Baby by Canadian photographer Patrice Laroche, Sandra Denis and their daughter Justine. UPDATE: There's a video version too.

New theory claims that crying babies help win wars.

Tomer Ullman has a wonderful new theory of why babies cry. The reason? It made our savanna ancestors angry and helped them beat their competitors in battle. I'll let him explain: As you will have hopefully have gathered HE'S JOKING!!! His presentation was the winning entry