Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Darwin , Charles (2008), The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, MobileReference, Retrieved on 2012-03-23
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    23 MAR 2012

     Measuring the Intent in a Child's Smile

    It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the pr...
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    Darwin describes his methodology for determining if his infant's smile was intentional.

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