The Role of Play in Human Development

By Anthony D. Pellegrini. 2009

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Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures (2012, background): “…species characterized by prolonged immaturity and extended parental care (Fagen 1993), starts in infancy, peaks in juvenility and decreases at puberty (rodents: Pellis & Pellis 2009; lemurs: Palagi et al. 2002; chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes/humans: Cordoni & Palagi 2011; humans: Pellegrini 2009).”
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation (2013, background): “In recent years, the literature has expanded rapidly and thinking has been greatly helped by the publication of two important books (Pellegrini, 2009; Smith, 2010) and by huge improvements in methodology (Lillard et al.”
Preschool children's social pretend play: supporting the development of metacommunication, metacognition and self-regulation (2012, background): “Correlations have been drawn however, between social pretend play and a number of variables including creativity, literacy, language, problem-solving, self-regulation and theory of mind (Bergen, 2002; Pellegrini, 2009).”
The Development of Play (2015, methodology): “Further discussion of theories of play can be found in Pellegrini (2009) and P. K. Smith (2010).”
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy (2013, background): “…often have an element of make-believe (Christie & Johnsen, 1983; Fisher, Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff, Singer, & Berk, 2011; Garvey, 1990; Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff, 2003; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2009; Johnson, Christie, & Yawkey, 1999; Pellegrini, 2009; Sutton-Smith, 2001; Sutton-Smith & Kelly-Byrne, 1984).”
Unleashing the Emergent Cognitive Synergy in Large Language Models: A Task-Solving Agent through Multi-Persona Self-Collaboration (2023, background): “This idea is heavily inspired by the role of pretend play (Piaget, 1954; Pellegrini, 2009) in cognitive development and recent findings that assigning personas (Deshpande et al., 2023; Xu et al., 2023) to LLMs can elicit specific behaviors, improve answer quality, and potentially build an AI…”