Babies. Who wouldnât smile at the thought of them?
They have this warm baby smell that youâd like to keep sniffing. Babies also have cute smiles at the ready that could brighten your day and warm your heart.
But one thing we love about babies? Their laugh.
Weâve seen so many videos of babies giggling their hearts out. And we donât even have an idea what theyâre laughing about! But we love it because their laugh is very contagious, and even if we donât get it, we laugh along with them.
This video will surely make it to your âcontagious baby laughsâ playlist!
Danielle Pestka posted this video of her nephew, who couldnât help but laugh at his grandfather. He went on and on; itâs too cute not to share.
Can you guess what he was laughing about?
Michaelâs grandfather talked to him about his pizza. Of course, the little guy had no idea what his grandfather was talking about but still laughed. He wasnât laughing about his pizza complaints but about how he said, âDarn it!â every end of his statement.
âWait a minute! Thereâs not enough cheese on my pizza. Darn it!â
His grandfather started with that, and Michael laughed. He went on and on about his âpizza chroniclesâ â about the ham on his pizza, Michaelâs milk getting cold, and how he forgot to tip the delivery guy, all adding âdarn itâ in the end.
Michael laughed every single time!
Thereâs nothing funny about it, right? But it is for this adorable little guy. He still laughed even if his grandpa just said âdarn itâ without any additional anecdote. What an adorable cutie pie!
If thereâs nothing funny about what his grandpa said, why was he laughing?
According to British researcher Caspar Addyman, there are three main reasons why babies laugh based on his study. Peek-a-boo came out on top while playing with puppets, and making silly noises came as close contenders.
Maybe âdarn itâ sounds like a silly noise to Michael.
Addyman works as a lecturer at the University of London and director of Goldsmiths InfantLab. His works focused on babies and overall developmental psychology. His study on what makes a baby laugh was sampled worldwide.
But he had one discovery from their experiment that he never expected.
While all those reasons for laughing worked with infants, those didnât work with older babies. We can still recall babies around two years old who have contagious laughers, right? If it werenât those three reasons, then what?
People or human connection. Deep stuff, huh?
He said that older babies still laugh when they see others who also laugh. They take a cue from those around them that what they saw or heard was funny â so they laugh, too.
Did you notice how Danielle was laughing in the background?
That could be a contributing factor to why Michael kept laughing, too. Though he is much younger than Addymanâs case studies, it all made sense why we often see these contagious laughing baby videos online.
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