Humor in Infants
Developmental and Psychological Perspectives
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Beschreibung
This volume explores in depth how infants—perhaps as young as three months—develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor. Engagingly written, it synthesizes theories of humor, its subtle complexities, and why it exists despite seeming to have little survival value. Chapters trace the developing skills in the child’s interactions with parents and others, the roles of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in humor, and related phenomena including absurdity, funniness, laughter, teasing, and play. These diverse perspectives offer rich insights into how the human mind learns from its environment, why humor is funny, and what humor can tell us about being human. This singular text: Reviews theories and findings on humor and its critical role in social behavior.Analyzes the challenges of researching humor in infants and young children.Differentiates among concepts and contexts of humor and playfulness.Situates humor as a social-emotional as well as cognitive experience.Details current research on humor in atypically developing children.Examines the role of culture in humor.Humor in Infants is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students in developmental psychology, infant mental health, social psychology, cognitive science, and pediatrics.
This volume explores in depth how infants—perhaps as young as three months—develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor. Engagingly written, it synthesizes theories of humor, its subtle complexities, and why it exists despite seeming to have little survival value. Chapters trace the developing skills in the child’s interactions with parents and others, the roles of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in humor, and related phenomena including absurdity, funniness, laughter, teasing, and play. These diverse perspectives offer rich insights into how the human mind learns from its environment, why humor is funny, and what humor can tell us about being human.
This singular text:
- Reviews theories and findings on humor and its critical role in social behavior.
- Analyzes the challenges of researching humor in infants and young children.
- Differentiates among concepts and contexts of humor and playfulness.
- Situates humor as a social-emotional as well as cognitive experience.
- Details current research on humor in atypically developing children.
- Examines the role of culture in humor.
Examines a cutting-edge body of research on humor perception and creation in infants Reviews theories of the function and evolutionary underpinnings of verbal and nonverbal humor Explores humor from cognitive and social-emotional perspectives Discusses various elements of humor (e.g., laughter, playfulness, teasing, and clowning) Examines humor in infants with atypical development to understand perception and experience Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Gina C. Mireault
Themen in »Humor in Infants«
Absurdity in infants Clowning in infants Humor in infants with atypical development Humor in typically developing infants Incongruity in infants Infant humor Infant laughter Infant mental health Playfulness in infants Smiling in infants Social referencing in infants Social-cognition of infants Social-emotional development of infants Teasing in infants
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“Gina Mireault and Vasudevei Reddy, authors of Humor in Infants: Developmental and Psychological Perspectives, have written a short book totaling only 62 pages that examines numerous aspects of cognitive and emotional development in the first year of life as they might relate to the development of humor. … offers the interested reader a nice little summary of the thinking as well as the research on the topic of humor in infancy. It is a good jumping-off point for further study.” (Ronald J. Friedman, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (1), January, 2017)
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