Baby Humor Development It is during this time in a child’s life
that they begin to closely watch their parent’s expressions.
This is when they start to understand how to interpret when
something is funny. The study was conducted in the U.S. where
researchers studied a group of 30 babies in their own homes on
two separate occasions. The first occasion was when the babies
were 6 months old and the second was when they were one year
old. The babies were studied initially while they watched their
parents react to two ordinary events and later to two unordinary
events. For the ordinary event the researcher read a picture
book and showed a red ball to the babies. For the unordinary
event the researcher bounced the picture book on her head and
put the red ball on her nose. When the unordinary event occurred
the parents were told to either point and laugh at the
researcher or to stare without making an expression. At 6 months
of age, during the absurd events, the babies watched their
parents closely as they laughed a