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Baby Dominic laughing at 3 months and 20 months

Your Babies #025: Dominic is back

Remember Dominic? He's a world record breaker and the star of BBC's coverage of our project. He's an old friend of the Baby Laughter project. Well, not that old, he's only 20 months old. But he was 3 and bit months old

Your Babies #024: Liliana laughing at a paper bag

Your Babies #024: Liliana laughing at a paper bag

Babies will laugh at almost anything as this video of 5 month old baby Liliana shows. The video was sent by her Auntie Karina, who says "my sister found out just how much laughter the shake of a bag could bring to her 5 month old baby girl. Her

OECD PISA Report 2012 Front page graphic.

Which countries have happy, successful teenagers? Most of them!

'Happy teenager' isn't the oxymoron that media clichées might have you believe. Most teenagers aren't in a state of permanent oscillation between angry and depressed. Nor are they out out happy-slapping or high on glue or cheap cider. Mostly they working hard at school,

Super happy growing baby

Parents filmed 1 second of video of each day of their son from 3 months until his 1st birthday. My main observations are that he is a very happy baby and he has a LOT of different outfits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLoHh4MdgAw You might ask how many

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dog sees itself in a mirror

Cats and dogs failing the mirror test

When young humans see themselves in the mirror, more often than not they point and laugh. Young dogs and cats bark and scratch, as this video shows. At least i think those are all puppies and kittens. From what I remember of our family pets, cats and dogs get used

We forget our infancy as we start to think like adults.

We forget our infancy as we start to think like adults.

Why can't we remember our early life? It is a question I am frequently asked. The conventional answer is that our experience as a baby and toddler was so different that it is very difficult to retrieve those memories. And even if we could remember the memories themselves

1,200 Whimsical Stone Buddhas

1,200 Whimsical Stone Buddhas

As a bit of a break from all the laughing babies here are some cheerful stone figures from Otagi Nenbutsu-Ji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. There are over 1200 of them. They were assembled by sculptor Kocho Nishimura with the help of many amateur stone carvers. They've only

The science of happiness

The Science of Happiness

Graphic by WebpageFX. Click to embiggen. Infographic - The Science of Happiness -via Bounce Back: Develop Your Resiliency (PsychCentral.com) A few gentle reminders of the important things in life. Although this graphic is not perfect by any means. In particular, it's not true that having children makes

More proof that babies love tearing paper.

More proof that babies love tearing paper.

A Chinese toddler with a penchant for tearing up books saw his habit take a costly leap after he got his hands on his parents’ life savings and ripped the lot to shreds. The unnamed four-year-old tore his way through notes worth £3,000 after discovering the stash in a

Laughter begins with a tickle.

Laughter begins with a tickle.

Happy new year, everyone. Now that our baby laughter survey is over, I am going carefully through the results for a scientific write-up and for a potential book project. Appropriately for the start of a new year, I'm beginning by looking at the very earliest laughs and what

Your Babies #023: Sorrisos!

https://www.magisto.com/video/NUJNI14FQTA_RARpYw?l=vsmu0026o=wu0026c=e Thanks to Ana Carolina for this incredibly uplifting video of her 2 1/2 month old son. Bookmark it and replay it when you need cheering up.

Your Babies #022: The baby in the mirror

Your Babies #022: The baby in the mirror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l51CWrwLtEQ Maciej & Ola sent us this video of their 4 month old baby Frederick seeing himself in the mirror for the first time. He's not entirely sure what's going on but he likes it! At four months old Frederick

Baby Laughter project update.

Baby Laughter project update.

A quick update on the baby laughter project 1. As you can see we've redesigned the site. I've merged the main blog and the video blog. Subscribe here. 2. Because... we have finished our laughter survey! Thank you to all the parents who took part. We

Spit-up Night at the Improv | Kinderlab Blog

I did a short interview with Kate Gammon at the excellent new baby science blog Kinderlab. Spit-up Night at the Improv | Popular Science I wasn't very on the ball when she called me up but Kate has done a great job of turning my confused rambling into clever

The Do It All parent..

After my comments about the 'DIY baby' I think it is worth redressing the balance. Babies spend a lot of time teaching themselves how to walk, talk and throw food on the floor. But parents spend even more time being parents. I wouldn't normally post these

The Do It Yourself baby.

The recent BBC coverage of our project has lead to some interesting questions from parents. Not being a parent myself, I can only give the 'sciencey' answer but hopefully this provides a clue Having watched your recent news piece with respect to baby laughter I was intrigued by

Mother's singing makes baby emotional : UPDATE

This is the latest baby to make waves on youtube. The baby seems to be showing a remarkable range of emotions in response to her mother's singing of a sad song. UPDATE: Quite a lot of people have asked me to explain this video. But I have to

Cats love babies... but babies STILL love dogs!

After my previous post insisting that babies think dogs are funnier than cats, a couple of people sent me a link to this video compilation entitled "Cats love babies". There's definitely a lot of love there. Or at the very least, a fair amount of mutual

Your Babies #021: It's a hard life being a baby scientist.

Here is baby Lawrie on a visit to Birkbeck Babylab at three months old. As you can see he enjoyed himself very much. The hand you can see belongs to my colleague Irati Rodriguez Saez de Urabain. She had quite a lot of fun too.

mr schadenfreude by roger hargreaves

Your Babies #020: Infant schadenfreude?

Our latest video comes from Diana and shows baby Ciera laughing as her twin brother Cole face plants the floor as he reaches for her bouncer. Ciera and Cole are just 1 year old in this video so it probably seems unlikely to you that Ciera's laughter is

Welcome visitors from the BBC

The baby laughter project was featured on the BBC News site today. So if you saw us there, thank you for visiting our site. If you didn't you can follow the links at the end to see their video and article about us. Either way, we hope you

Our first peer reviewed publication in Comedy Studies

I am pleased to say that the first scientific write up of our research has been published in the journal Comedy Studies. The science of baby laughter Caspar Addyman & Ishbel Addyman ABSTRACT The Baby Laughter Project (https://babies.lol) is a research program in developmental psychology that uses online

The 35 Happiest Moments In Animal History - Buzzfeed

Happiness isn't just for humans.. The 35 Happiest Moments In Animal History (Buzzfeed)

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Was tickling babies the first form of comedy?

Did all comedy arise from tickling games played with babies? Aaron Schuster draws attention to this theory in a long and surprisingly serious essay on the philosophy of tickling. Psychologist and adult laughter expert Robert Provine has speculated that the anticipation of a tickle might have been the first ever