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Cats just want to have fun: Associations between play and welfare in domestic cats
Animal Welfare, 2023 Play is often considered an indicator and promotor of animal welfare and may facilitate closer cat-human relationships. However, few studies have empirically investigated these associations.
Julia Henning +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Healthcare clowning represents a well-established method for relieving patients and their relatives of discomfort during hospitalization. Although studies concerning the effectiveness of this approach are increasing in number, state-of-the-art studies ...
Alberto Dionigi +2 more
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Adult play(fulness) and the art of stuff-mess-wonder: Creative playful learning with the Comicubes
Journal of Play in Adulthood, 2023 This article focuses on the materiality of adult playfulness. The studies synthesized in the article explore creative playful learning at adult age that manifests in association with using simple paper technology in the co-creative context of workshops ...
Katriina Heljakka
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Purpose: Play is a right for every child and has a key role in child development. Play can be analyzed according to the construct of playfulness, which is the child’s disposition to play.
Daniela Bulgarelli +3 more
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Intertextuality and Archetype Transformation as the Polysemy Basis of the Modern Reimagined Fairy Tale [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2023 In the modern English-language literary space the genre of short prose, based on the plots of classical fairy tales and addressed primarily to an adult audience, is extremely popular.
Kadisha R. Nurgali, Aigerim A. Gilea
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The Relation between Teachers’ and Children’s Playfulness: A Pilot Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Young children spend considerable time in educational settings, in which traditionally, their primary occupation is play. A playful preschool environment has been related to better cognitive, social and emotional development.
Shulamit Pinchover
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Cannabis use remains a major public health concern, and its use typically begins in adolescence. Chronic administration of ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, during adolescence can produce deficits in ...
Stephanie M. Himmler +3 more
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A multidisciplinary perspective on adult play and playfulness [PDF]
International Journal of Play, 2017 Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being,and he is only fully a human being when he plays.
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Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 2022 . The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scales (K-DOCS) assess individual differences in creativity across five domains (Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Science, and Artistic).
Kay Brauer +3 more
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The beauty of experiential learning in anatomy
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Anatomy is a unique subject where one must learn by doing. This is achieved through a variety of methods like dissection, use of prosections, imaging, playful learning (crocheting structures, drawing, and painting organs), through functional movement like yoga or pilates, use of 3D plastic models or by immersing oneself in virtual or augmented
Bipasha Choudhury, Ingrid Gouldsborough
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