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Humor, Abstraction, and Disbelief
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Hoicka, Elena; Jutsum, Sarah; Gattis, Merideth – Cognitive Science, 2008
We investigated humor as a context for learning about abstraction and disbelief. More specifically, we investigated how parents support humor understanding during book sharing with their toddlers. In Study 1, a corpus analysis revealed that in books aimed at 1- to 2-year-olds, humor is found more often than other forms of doing the wrong thing…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Humor, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Aloud to Others