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Introduction: Playfulness across Media [PDF]
Eludamos, 2021 This is the introduction to the guest-edited Playfulness across Media issue of Eludamos. The articles collected here seek to demonstrate the productivity of the concept of playfulness across disciplines and the importance of moving beyond the study of ...
Jan-Noël Thon
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Play like me: Similarity in playfulness promotes social play. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Social play is associated with the experience of positive emotions in higher vertebrates and may be used as a measure of animal welfare. Altering motivation to play (e.g., through short-term social isolation) can temporarily affect play levels between ...
Jessica Frances Lampe +4 more
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Playfulness and identity [PDF]
, 2018 People may regard playfulness as unproductive with related negative effects, although it is enjoyable and frequently occurs in their life. On the other side, identity is an important topic that exists in psychosocial wellbeing, consumer research and ...
Aroean, Lukman
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Frontiers in Education, 2023 Play and playfulness are understood as basic and vital elements of early childhood education (ECE), and together with playful pedagogies, they perform a central role in Finnish ECE.
Anitta Melasalmi +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionDevelopmental research has traditionally focused on parenting behaviors such as nurturance and care, due to a focus on mothers’ behaviors.
Jean-François Bureau +5 more
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Playfulness versus epistemic traps [PDF]
, 2022 What is the value of intellectual playfulness? Traditional characterizations of the ideal thinker often leave out playfulness; the ideal inquirer is supposed to be sober, careful, and conscientiousness.
Nguyen, C. Thi
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399).
Kay Brauer +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +3 more
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Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Number of romantic/sexual relationships is suggested as a proxy of potential reproductive success. Cross-culturally, both sexes desire playful long-term mates and playfulness predicts relationship quality.
Yago Luksevicius de Moraes +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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