The development of laughter in the first year of life.
The development of laughter in the first year of life.
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笑声在生命的第一年发展。
作者:
L. Sroufe;J. Wunsch
SROUFE, L. ALAN, and WUNSCH, JANE PICCARD. The Development of Laughter in the First Year of Life. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1972, 43, 13261344. In a series of observational studies, based on more than 150 infants in the first year of life, clear evidence of age changes in both amount of laughter and the nature of stimuli eliciting laughter was found. Those stimuli that were primarily tactile or auditory elicited laughter in younger infants and then became less potent in the third or fourth trimester of life, while most visual items and some social items became increasingly successful across the age range studied. The results were discussed in terms of cognitive growth, the psychoanalytic notion of ambivalence, the role of stimulus context in eliciting laughter or fear, and a possible adaptive, stimulus-maintaining function of laughter.