Ethnographic reports of children's play in cultures around the world demonstrate that
pretense is a widespread, perhaps universal, part of children's play, but the quantity and …

Pretend play has recently been of great interest to researchers studying children's
understanding of the mind. One reason for this interest is that pretense seems to require …

Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal–but what does that
mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most important components–our capacity to …

Social play has a complex, cooperative nature that requires substantial coordination. This
has led researchers to use social games to study cognitive abilities like shared intentionality …

Why is play so important in child development? Are children in today's society suffering from
a lack of time for free play, with the emerging dominance of screen play? Can play therapy …

The Collaborative Construction of Pretend explores the origins and development of social
pretend play in children. It begins with the infant's first attempts to play pretend with an adult; …

We assessed the effects of teaching sociodramatic play to three children with autism. The
training was conducted using a variation of Pivotal Response Training (PRT), a program …

This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth
ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective …

Ninety‐two preschoolers (46 Anglo‐and 46 Korean‐American) were observed during free
play activities and videotaped in an experimental toy play setting. Cultural differences were …

The literature dealing with the structure and communication of social pretend play activity in
preschool-age children is examined. The two objectives of this review were to determine (1) …