Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to …
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of …
HH Clark - Psychological review, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …
We adults could scarcely find our way in the world, either literally or metaphorically, if no one told us anything. Imagine planning a journey to a distant city you've never visited before …
" Despite quite some variation in its numerous manifestations, three core features of deductive reasoning seem to stand out. They are aptly captured in the following definition of …
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …
Decety and JT Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551–64. New York: Oxford University Press. The literature on the neuroscience of empathy, while …
G Airenti - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Human beings frequently attribute anthropomorphic features, motivations and behaviors to animals, artifacts, and natural phenomena. Historically, many interpretations of this attitude …
Scenario planning allows companies to move away from linear thinking and better understand external change. Eight years (and 30,000 copies) after publication Scenarios is …