Scientists from the University of Bristol, the Universities of Sheffield and Northern Vermont conducted a study that showed how children under four react to humor.. It turned out that at each stage of growing up different things make them laugh, according to Popular Mechanics..
The study involved the parents of 671 children under the age of 3.9 years who lived in the UK, USA, Australia and Canada.. Parents of toddlers answered 20 questions aimed at determining the development of a sense of humor in children at different ages.
It turned out that the earliest age at which children can already understand humor is one month.. But for different children everything goes differently, so 50% of children were able to achieve such indicators by two months, and the rest - at all by 11 months.
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Older children also took part in the study, and scientists were able to identify 21 types of humor in them.. Each of them was used at a certain age. So, children under one year old mostly laughed when playing hide and seek or tickling. They were amused by funny sounds, faces and other tomfoolery..
One-year-old children were already able to appreciate several types of humor, which also involved receiving reactions from other people: that is, teasing, taking off clothes, intimidation, taboo topics (for example, related to the toilet), imitative behavior.
The humor of two-year-old children was even more complex and suggested speech development.
In addition, children at this age were capable of meanness, appreciated ridicule of others and aggressive humor..
Three-year-olds already preferred playing with social rules, such as using obscene words to elicit laughter.. They also showed some ability to understand puns..
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