Evolution's Pedagogy: An Adaptationist Model of Pretense and Entertainment

By Francis F. Steen, S. Owens. 2001

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Entertainment as Pleasurable and Meaningful: Identifying Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Entertainment Consumption (2011, background): “…their realities (Vorderer, 2001) and that may further have evolutionarily benefits in terms of providing safe ‘‘training’’ for dangerous or threatening situations or allowing for the enactment of a diversity of cognitive and behavioral responses to the environment (e.g., Steen & Owens, 2001).”
Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience (2008, background): “The chasers in Steen and Owens’ (2001) study of pretense play are entertainers that may be appraised in their roles not only as friendly, but also as skilful, ‘‘devastatingly good,’’ or ‘‘downright disappointing.’’”
Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study (2005, background): “…of survival and the mother's reproductive success), (5) guarding and invading (abbreviated as bguardingQ), as in one individual guarding a food patch that another keeps trying to exploit, and (6) playing, which can be seen as bpracticingQ moves for other domains (Fagen, 1981; Steen & Owens, 2001).”
The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015, background): “Steen and Owens (2001) have shown that chase play in toddlers and preschoolers has features of special design as a system for practicing and perfecting escape from predators (see also Marks, 1987).”