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 ...

While a sense of humor is a key component of being human, laughter isn’t a pastime of Homo sapiens alone. Other primates laugh, too, though their laughter differs from ours in a fundamental way. The ...

Adult humans laugh primarily on the exhale, but human babies laugh on the inhale and the exhale—as do chimps. Christopher Intagliata reports. Sauter and her colleagues collected 44 samples of babies ...

An adorable video of a baby’s reaction to her mom cooking has been capturing hearts on the internet. The little one is leaving everyone awestruck with her heartwarming giggles that are truly ...

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 ...

Few sounds encapsulate the feeling of pure, undiluted joy better than a baby’s giggle. But as babies mature into toddlers and inevitably veer closer to adulthood, their laughter loses some of this ...

For some parents, there's nothing sweeter than hearing their baby laugh for the first time, and that's exactly how Andy and Melissa Fischer from Minnesota felt when their 4-month-old daughter Veda let ...

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 ...