Tiny people giggle at everything from tickling to peek-a-boo to silly faces. But do they really have a sense of humor?

Is there a purer sound than a baby’s laughter? Many people would say “no”! When a baby laughs, you know they’re genuinely happy – they don’t know how to pretend to feel emotions! Plus, babies end up ...

Some of the greatest joys of early parenthood involve watching your baby learn to communicate and express themselves as they grow. At this stage, newborns communicate mostly by crying and show ...

The world is bad, but babies remain good. Babies are especially good when they are laughing, which they start to do at around three and a half months old. Babies laugh when other people do things, ...

Zany faces, funny noises and zerberts galore. Parents of young babies will stop at nothing to try and get their baby to laugh for the first time. If your little one has yet to show you this ...

We have had it up to here with coronavirus news, cancellations, and school closings, and yet we can’t stop reading every headline. But also, the world marches on. One way we’ve survived as a species ...

Babies may laugh like some apes a few months after birth before transitioning to chuckling more like human adults, a new study finds. Less is known about how human babies laugh. So Mariska Kret, a ...

Unlike other primates, humans generally laugh only as they exhale—a curiosity that has long puzzled researchers. Now, an international team of psychologists has found that babies laugh both as they ...

Since 2012, I have been studying laughing babies. The question I am most often asked—frequently accompanied by incredulous laughter—is “Why?” And sometimes, “Wouldn’t it be better to study what makes ...

Since 2012, I have been studying laughing babies. The question I am most often asked—frequently accompanied by incredulous laughter—is “Why?” And sometimes, “Wouldn’t it be better to study what makes ...