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"Goosebump man. That's funny!": Humor with siblings and friends from early to middle childhood.
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Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology . Nov2021, Vol. 77, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We investigated change and continuity in children's humor production from early to middle childhood with siblings and friends. Sixty-five children (M age = 56.4 months, SD = 5.71) were observed as they played with their older or younger sibling and with a friend in two separate play sessions. Children were observed again approximately three years later (n = 46, M age = 94.6 months; SD = 6.6). Spontaneous humor production was coded in the play sessions. Focal children's humor production did not differ as a function of relationship or time. Children's tendency to produce humor with their sibling at 4 years of age was associated with humor production with a friend, both concurrently and three years later. Our findings draw attention to childhood sibling relationships and friendships as rich contexts for humor and continuities across relationships and time. • We investigated children's humor during play with a sibling and a friend in a longitudinal study. • Humor with a sibling at age 4 was associated with humor with a friend, both concurrently and three years later. • Children's humor was highly dyadic and, at age 7, appeared specific to each social context. • Our findings provide new knowledge regarding the nature of humor across childhood and in different child-child relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SIBLINGS
*WIT & humor
*SOCIAL context
*LONGITUDINAL method
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01933973
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153784397
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2021.101321