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The Evolution of Playfulness, Play and Play-Like Phenomena in Relation to Sexual Selection
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 By conceptualizing Sexual Selection, Darwin showed a way to analyze intra-specific individual differences within an evolutionary perspective. Interestingly, Sexual Selection is often used to investigate the origins of sports, arts, humor, religion and ...
Yago Luksevicius Moraes +2 more
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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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Playfulness in Shakespearean adaptations
, 2020 Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and ...
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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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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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Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022 This article asks media educators to consider how the assumptions and values we hold are reflected in our reception and circulation of youth-produced texts in ways that colonize youth interests, sensibilities, and aesthetics.
Jacqueline Ryan Vickery
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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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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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