{"id":520887,"date":"2010-04-08T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:00:43","slug":"ncbi-rofl-an-ecological-study-of-glee-in-small-groups-of-preschool-children-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520887","title":{"rendered":"NCBI ROFL: An ecological study of glee in small groups of preschool children. | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8307\" title=\"2877000137_0ca6aa1e7f\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/2877000137_0ca6aa1e7f.jpg\" alt=\"2877000137_0ca6aa1e7f\" width=\"311\" height=\"213\"\/>&#8220;A phenomenon called group glee was studied in videotpes of 596 formal lessons in a preschool. This was characterized by joyful screaming, laughing, and intense physical acts which occurred in simultaneous bursts or which spread in a contagious fashion from one child to another. A variety of precipitating factors were identified, the most prevalent being teacher requests for volunteers, unstructured lags in lessons, gross physical-motor actions, and cognitive incongruities. Distinctions between group glee and laughter were pointed out. <span id=\"more-8302\"><\/span>While most events of glee did not disrupt the ongoing lesson, those which did tended to produce a protective reaction on the part of teachers. Group glee tended to occur most often in large groups (7-9 children) and in groups containing both sexes. The latter finding was related to Darwin&#8217;s theory of differentiating vocal signals in animals and man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1132281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8303\" title=\"glee\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/04\/glee.jpg\" alt=\"glee\" width=\"553\" height=\"233\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p><em>Photo: flickr\/<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edenpictures\/2877000137\/in\/set-72157621925978910\/\">edenpictures<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related content:<br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/03\/02\/this-just-in-children-like-to-play-with-food\/\">NCBI ROFL: This just in: Children like to play with food!!!<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/04\/14\/viewing-cute-images-increases-behavioral-carefulness\/\">NCBI ROFL: Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/06\/dance-till-you-cant-dance-till-you-cant-dance-no-more\/\">NCBI ROFL: Dance till you can&#8217;t dance till you can&#8217;t dance no more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9tBddorXYbiWeBDiUzPdZ8ROh14\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9tBddorXYbiWeBDiUzPdZ8ROh14\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9tBddorXYbiWeBDiUzPdZ8ROh14\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9tBddorXYbiWeBDiUzPdZ8ROh14\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/JagLEfMSt_I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A phenomenon called group glee was studied in videotpes of 596 formal lessons in a preschool. This was characterized by joyful screaming, laughing, and intense physical acts which occurred in simultaneous bursts or which spread in a contagious fashion from one child to another. A variety of precipitating factors were identified, the most prevalent being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}