Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2152183
G. Burghardt, E. Palagi
ABSTRACT This special issue of the International Journal of Play is devoted to the evolution and ontogeny of play and includes papers on various animals, children, and a diversity of phenomena all related to this theme. Papers in the issue provide original data on these species: rheas, Beluga whales, wolves, Japanese monkeys, gorillas, and human children as well as a phylogenetic analysis of social play in primates. While social play is emphasized, object play is also discussed, including in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder in humans. Theoretical issues are also covered, such as the origins and evolution of object play and its role in social and cultural evolution. Together these papers highlight the myriad aspects of play that need to be integrated into our understanding of a topic now decisively liberated from being viewed primarily from an anthropocentric perspective isolated from its deep biological and evolutionary roots.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2152532
Claudia Zeiträg, T. R. Jensen, M. Osvath
ABSTRACT Even if there is evidence of play from all vertebrate classes suggesting origins in deep time, descriptions of the evolution of play are surprisingly patchy. To bridge this gap, one must study play comparatively and include taxa from key phylogenetic positions. This study is the first systematic description of play in greater rheas, and thereby the first such report on any palaeognath bird. Palaeognaths represent a major subgroup of modern-day birds that have retained many ancestral features from their direct ancestors, the non-avian dinosaurs, making them an ideal window into the behaviors of the earliest birds. We recorded play behaviors of a group of captive rheas, with a focus on the modes and ontogenetic development of their play. Juveniles predominantly engaged in contagious locomotor play, adding a social component to the majority of their play bouts. Interactive social play such as wrestling appeared only around the age of 10.5 weeks and was generally rarer. Based on our findings we hypothesize that early birds, and likely also paravian dinosaurs, played in a similar fashion with a noticeable component of sociality. These hypotheses need to be expanded through more studies on different species of palaeognath birds.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2112153
Ryli Seyval Amabile
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2156040
Kim Foulds
ABSTRACT While the importance of play for young children’s healthy brain development is widely recognized, the literature on the role and perceptions of play among parents of young children is largely grounded in industrialized and well-resourced contexts. As such, there remains an important need to understand the role, perception, and value of play among families in more fragile contexts and geographies, including humanitarian settings. In an effort to address this knowledge gap, this study presents findings on the role and perception of play from 825 parents and caregivers of children ages 3–8 years old from a diverse range of low-resource and humanitarian contexts. The findings here demonstrate that play has a central role in families’ lives and parents under the link between play and children’s holistic development, but that there are both individual and structural issues that limit opportunities for play and that present significant challenges to play.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2111878
Elizabeth R. Weston
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2152185
Peter K. Smith, J. StGeorge
ABSTRACT Play fighting and chasing in human children – often referred to as rough-and-tumble play, or RTP or R&T – is a common form of play, and one that has the most obvious correspondence to play in many (especially mammalian) non-human species. Unlike object, pretend and sociodramatic play, generally encouraged by teachers and parents, play fighting is viewed in a much more ambivalent way. The role it has in development, and whether this should be viewed in a positive or negative light, continues to be debated. Here we review what insights may be gained from research on play fighting in non-human species, main developmental trends in humans, definitional and measurement issues, cultural variations, and empirical data on the correlates found with behaviors of adaptive significance. We conclude with some reflections on theoretical issues and future research priorities. A consistent theme from work with non-human species, parent–child RTP, and peer-peer RTP, is that RTP experience is important for emotional control and the learning of restraint in what may be competitive or conflictual situations.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2112157
Alana Greeley
{"title":"No electronics in a world that is plugged-in","authors":"Alana Greeley","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2112157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2112157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83812647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2152182
Anna R. Beresin
ABSTRACT For more information see: ‘Play Signals, Play Moves: A Gorilla Critique of Play Theory’ International Journal of Play, Nov 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2018.1532681
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2111865
Devon Conroy
{"title":"‘One last time for play’","authors":"Devon Conroy","doi":"10.1080/21594937.2022.2111865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2022.2111865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52149,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Play","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89104379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2022.2152184
J. Leca, Noëlle Gunst
ABSTRACT There are many adaptationist hypotheses and non-selectionist accounts for the evolution of play. Some scholars argued that, ‘primary-process play’ originally arose as a by-product of fortuitous conditions, adaptive or not (e.g. high metabolic energy, boredom). Once evolved, these basic playful behavioral elements, characterized by some quirkiness, arbitrariness, redundancy, flexibility, and latent potential, may serve as a built-in reservoir of creative and adaptive variability. As such, they could subsequently be co-opted for beneficial or fitness-enhancing behavioral effects (i.e. exaptations Type 2) during further evolutionary transformation into more elaborate secondary-process and tertiary-process play. We built a theoretical case for (object) play as a co-optable behavioral spandrel, with a potential for exaptations Type 2, and proposed a research design to empirical test whether stone play traditions can be exapted into stone tool use in non-human primates. Our approach is consistent with Gould’s pluralistic perspective on evolutionary theory.
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