Social looking, social referencing and humor perception in 6- and-12-month-old infants

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 536-545

  Mireault, Gina C ^a   Crockenberg, Susan C ^b   Sparrow, John E ^c   Pettinato, Christine A ^a   Woodard, Kelly C ^a   Malzac, Kirsten ^a  

^a LYNDON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Humor; Infancy; Social development; Social referencing

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; INFANT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LOOKING; SOCIAL REFERENCING; ADULT; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; EMOTION; HUMOR PERCEPTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL LEARNING; AGING; ASSOCIATION; LAUGHTER; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LAUGHTER; MALE; PARENTS; SMILING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 84904764827     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 19348800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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