Resource Library
The Play Science Archive.
A hand-picked selection of external books, research, and media curated by our team.
Calm Your Body, Heal Your Mind: Transcend Pain, Anxiety, Anger, and Repetitive Unwanted Thoughts
Inquiry on the Sly: Playful Intervention as Philosophical Action
Outdoor play as a mean to achieve educational goals: A case study in a Portuguese day care group
Cross-species neuroaffective parsing of primal emotional desires and aversions in mammals
From Play to Aggression: High-Frequency 50-kHz Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Play and Appeasement Signals in Rats
Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows
Let Them Play: An Early Learning (Un)Curriculum
Play, animals, resources: The need for a rich (and challenging) comparative environment
What is the long-run impact of learning mathematics during preschool?
The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain
Effects of English versus heritage language on play in bilingually exposed children with autism spectrum disorder
Brain system size and adult play in primates: A comparative analysis of the roles of the non-visual neocortex and the amygdala
The effects of the Head Start classroom experience on some aspects of child development
Playing It Up: With Loose Parts, Playpods, and Adventure Playgrounds
Consequences of Play Deprivation
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
Making Sense Of Play: Supporting Children In Their Play
Baby Play And Learn: 160 Games and Learning Activities for the First Three Years
The impact of early institutional care on emotion regulation: Studying the play narratives of post-institutionalized and early adopted children
Using play to improve infant sleep: A mixed methods protocol
Evolutionary aspects of self- and world consciousness in vertebrates
Play behavior in rats pretreated with scopolamine: Increased play solicitation by the non-injected partner
Play: A Basic Pathway to the Self
The ethology of animal emotions: Investigation and interpretation
Children's perceptions of neighbourhood environments for walking and outdoor play
The Gardener and the Carpenter
The Death and Life of the American School System
Play, aggressive conflict, and reconciliation in pre-school children: What matters?
The Recess Project Changemaker's Guide
Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
Using social knowledge while interacting at the classroom sand center
Supporting Kindergarten Children's Social and Emotional Development
Exploring play in school recess and physical education classes
In-Game Play Behaviours during an Applied Video Game for Anxiety Prevention Predict Successful Intervention Outcomes
Keeping some wildness always alive: Posthumanism and the animality of children's literature and play
Analysis of the targets and tactics of conspecific attack and predatory attack in northern grasshopper mice
Comparative analyses of the role of postnatal development on the expression of play fighting
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Playful handling as social enrichment for individually- and group-housed laboratory rats
Children's experiences in the therapeutic relationship: Development and validation of a self-report measure
Utilizing child-centered play therapy with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and endured trauma
A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
Escape From Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children
Inviting the Spirit of Play to Transform Trauma: Healing for All Ages
Early childhood stimulation benefits adult competence and reduces violent behavior
Potential Space – A Serious Look at Child's Play
Special Issue: Global Matrix 3.0 - An introduction to the report cards on the physical activity of children and youth from five Asian countries
Unschooling To University
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Toy libraries in the world and Turkey: Samples of ALIPAA and Bergama toy libraries
Turkish and American preschoolers' play aggression and victimization behaviours in play context
Expanding the magic circle: Gamification as a marketplace icon
We are all friends: Disrupting friendship play discourses in inclusive early childhood education
The Avatar's new clothes: Understanding why players purchase non-functional items in free-to-play games
Technology Play and Brain Development
Play Therapy – A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Children's clans: Social organisation and interpretive reconstruction as aspects on development of peer groups in outdoor play
The Klutz Book of Inventions
Developmental stability in gender-typed preferences between infancy and preschool age
Morphine Subtracts Subcomponents of Haloperidol-Isolated Postural Support Reflexes To Reveal Gradients of Their Integration
Your Self-Confident Baby
Waldorf Schools and the History of Steiner Education
Play fighting in the Syrian golden hamster: Mesocricetus auratus and its relationship to serious fighting
Play at the Center of the Curriculum (6th Edition)
Evaluation of youth enjoyment toward physical activity and sedentary behavior
Evolution of American Playgrounds
Conspicuous Computing: Gamified Bodies, Playful Composition, and the Monsters in Your Pocket
Rats selectively bred for low levels of play-induced 50kHz vocalizations as a model for Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Young Child and the Educative Process
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans
Learning by designing: Literacy-based concept-oriented play activities for young children
Strong Competition Does Not Always Predict Play Asymmetry: The Case of South American Sea Lions (Otaria flavescens)
Serious Fun: How Guided Play Extends Children's Learning
The Playful Brain: Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits (MIT Press)
Facial Mimicry and Play: A Comparative Study in Chimpanzees and Gorillas
How is a cricket like a rat? Insights from the application of cybernetics to evasive food protective behaviour
Child Development, 7th ed.
Peer Play and Relationships in Early Childhood International Research Perspectives
Communication dynamics between mothers and their children with cochlear implants
Users' Needs Report on Play for Children with Disabilities
Current perspectives on the biological study of play: Signs of progress
Social learning in Cartilaginous fish (stingrays Potamotrygon falkneri)
Children's play and culture
Socioemotional versus Academic Emphasis: Impact on Kindergartners' Development and Achievement
Creative Block Play: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning through Building
A cross-sectional description of parental perceptions and practices related to risky play and independent mobility in children: the New Zealand state of play survey
The Affective Core of the Self: A Neuro-Archetypical Perspective on the Foundations of Human (and Animal) Subjectivity
Play and cognition: The final frontier
Gephyrin: a key regulatory protein of inhibitory synapses and beyond
Access to Play for Children in Situations of Crisis
The value of using an evolutionary framework for gauging children's well-being
Saving Play: Addressing Standards through Play-Based Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten
How to Play in the Woods
The Philosophy of Play as Life
Using progressive time delay to increase levels of peer imitation during sculpting play
When does the ritual of mythic symbolic type start and when does it end?
Embracing in a Female-Bonded Monkey Species (Theropithecus gelada)
Play and Adolescence: Developing a Playful Pedagogical Approach for Teenagers' Holistic Learning, Growth, and Wellbeing
Swinging Pendulums: Cautionary Tales for Early Childhood Education
Big Body Play
A comparison of preschoolers' physical activity indoors versus outdoors at child care
How Children Learn
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Simple Materials, Rich Experiences: Engaging Young Children with Loose Parts
The Playful Classroom
Fair play and its connection with social tolerance, reciprocity and the ethology of peace
Teaching play skills to children with disabilities: Research-based interventions and practices
Work-themed play among young children in foraging and farming communities in Central Africa
Chimpanzee and gorilla humor: Progressive emergence from origins in the wild to captivity to sign language learning
Dominance and age-related changes in the play fighting of intact and post-weaning castrated male rats (Rattus norvegicus)
Children's independence and affordances experienced in the context of public open spaces
Play and Playscapes
The Value of Play
Getting parents involved in children's play: Qatari parents' perceptions of and engagement with their children's play
Integrating Tinbergen's inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals
Movement as a Way of Knowing
Evidence for the Adaptive Learning Function of Work and Work-Themed Play among Aka Forager and Ngandu Farmer Children from the Congo Basin
Decision factors for community providers when referring very young children for autism evaluation
A cybernetic perspective on food protection in rats: Simple rules can generate complex and adaptable behaviour
The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally
Do brain lesions in stroke affect basic emotions and attachment?
Self Active Play
An Integrated Play-based Curriculum for Young Children
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Using block play to enhance preschool children's mathematics and executive functioning
Play and the development of social engagement: A comparative perspective
Playwork Voices: In Celebration of Bob Hughes and Gordon Sturrock
Unplugged Play: No Batteries. No Plugs. Pure Fun
It Pays to Play: How Play at Work Leads to More Joy, Creativity, and Innovation
The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy
How Children Fail
Play fighting in androgen-insensitive tfm rats: Evidence that androgen receptors are necessary
Social Interactions Between 24-Month-Old Children and Their Older Sibling with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Play and Wellbeing
Toward a theory of the evolution of fair play
The social defeat animal model of depression shows diminished levels of orexin in mesocortical regions
A little bit of coding goes a long way: Effects of coding on outdoor play
Imagining others' minds: The positive relation between children's role play and anthropomorphism
Rough-and-Tumble Play: Training and Using the Social Brain
I'm OK! Building Resilience through Physical Play
Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers
Characteristics of staff-child interaction in 1-3 year olds' risky play in early childhood education and care
Psychology and neurobiology of empathy
The intervention priorities of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders in Iran
Chinese mothers' and fathers' involvement in toddler play activity: type variations and gender differences
Neonatal testosterone augmentation increases juvenile play fighting but does not influence the adult dominance relationships of male rats
The Kingdom of Childhood: Growing up at the Sudbury Valley School
A novel NMDA receptor glycine-site partial agonist, GLYX-13, has therapeutic potential for the treatment of autism
Developing numeracy skills using interactive technology in a play-based learning environment
Evaluating group activity schedules to promote social play in children with autism
Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children's Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the Evidence.
Adult-juvenile play fighting in rats: Insight into the experiences that facilitate the development of socio-cognitive skills
Strategic Play: The Creative Facilitator's Guide
Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development
Consequences of Three Preschool Curriculum Models through Age 15
What is a Waldorf Kindergarten?
Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation Guide
Risk-taking in the New Zealand bush: Issues of resilience and wellbeing
Unhappy families: Using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education
Play behavioural tactics under space reduction: social challenges in bonobos, Pan paniscus
Definitions of Play
Playing school: Creating possibilities to inspire future Black male teachers through culturally relevant play
Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
profiles of playful men and playful women-personality and humor related attributes
Component analysis of stay-play-talk interventions with and without self-monitored group contingencies and recorded reminders
Roots and wings: An exploration of intergenerational play research
Unveiling the 'secret' of play in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): Asymmetry and signals
Play and Literacy: Play and Culture Studies, Volume 16
Understanding Drinking Game Behaviors: A Consideration of Alcohol Expectancies and Motives to Play and Drink
The philosophical implications of affective neuroscience
Children's Descriptions of Playing and Learning as Related Processes
Review of Player Personality Classifications to Inform Game Design
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
Play Like a PIRATE
Joyful Digressions: Going Gonzo
Deep Nature Play
Building a System of Indicators to Evaluate the Right of a Child to Play
The neurobiology of RAGE and anger & psychiatric implications with a focus on depression
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
The Ambiguity of Play
Ethological Approaches to Empathy in Primates
Analysis of the disruption of maternal social bonds in Octodon degus: Separation distress in restricted reunion tests
Evolving the tactics of play fighting: insights from simulating the keep away game in rats
I Wanna Play Too: Factors Related to Changes in Social Behavior for Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder After Implementation of a Structured Outdoor Play Curriculum
Is play a behavior system, and, if so, what kind?
Collaborative research between academics and practitioners to enhance play engagement in the free play of two and three year olds
Plan for People Play
When Children Play: Proceedings of the International Conference on Play and Play Environments
Stress-induced, glucocorticoid-dependent strengthening of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in midbrain dopamine neurons
An Evolutionary framework to understand foraging, wanting, and Desire: The Neuropsychology of the SEEKING system
No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society
Using peer-mediated LEGO play intervention to improve social interactions for Chinese children with autism
Fostering young children's interest in numeracy through demonstration of its value: The Footsteps Study
Developmental Exposure to Low Levels of Ethinylestradiol Affects Play Behavior in Juvenile Female Rats
Man, Play and Games
Toward an understanding of the constitution of consciousness through the laws of affect
Regional brain cholecystokinin changes as a function of rough-and-tumble play behavior in adolescent rats
Solitary, observer, parallel and social object play in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
The Emotional Foundations of Human Personality
How domestication modulates play behavior: A comparative analysis between wild rats and a laboratory strain of rattus norvegicus
Young children as beings, becomings, having beens: an integrated approach to role-play
Constituting play connection with very young children: Adults active participation in play
Sex-dependent effects of Cacna1c haploinsufficiency on juvenile social play behavior
Play for Life: Play Theory and Play as Emotional Survival
Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
Animal Awareness. Current Perceptions and Historical Perspective
Child-centered play therapy as an intervention for children with autism: A literature review
Rest, Play, Grow
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play
Exploring Outdoor Play in the Early Years
Evaluating a supported nature play programme, parents' perspectives
The Organization of Behavior – A Neuropsychological Theory
Fragile Avatars: Playful Betrayal in Children's Online Hacking Practices
Cross-Species affective neuroscience decoding of the primal affective experiences of humans and related animals
Is it typical? The ecological validity of the observation of mother-father-infant interactions in the Lausanne Trilogue Play
Feasibility of a modified ride-on car intervention on play behaviors during an inclusive playgroup
Do parents prefer digital play? Examination of parental preferences and beliefs in four nations
The Benefits of Recess in Primary School
ADHD and Play
The Science of Play: How to Build Playgrounds That Enhance Children's Development
Play and Child Development (4th Edition)
Using classroom game play in introductory microeconomics to enhance business student learning
A Behavioral Biology for the Future
A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Applying the Scientific Evidence
The Virtuousness of Adult Playfulness: the Relation of Playfulness with Strengths of Character
Social play in juvenile hamsters alters dendritic morphology in the medial prefrontal cortex
Playful Intelligence – The Power of Living Lightly in a Serious World
Heightened intensity: Reflecting on player experiences in Wayfinder Live
Naltrexone open trial with a 5-year-old-boy. A social rebound reaction.
Homo Ludens – A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
The effects of orbital frontal cortex damage on the modulation of defensive responses by rats in playful and nonplayful social contexts
Selected Principles of Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience
History of Children's Play and Play Environments
Purposeful Play – A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day
Play and the Human Condition
Child's Play: The Role of Play in Mitigating the Fear of Death Among Pediatric Palliative Care Team Patients
Play in American Life
"Laughing" rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?
Two Aspects of play fighting in a Captive Group of Oriental Small-clawed Otters Amblonyx cinerea
How Primary-Process Emotional Systems Guide Child Development: Ancestral Regulators of Human Happiness, Thriving, and Suffering
LEGO Serious Play as a visual method evaluator of educational practices linked to contemporary art
Don't steal my balloons: Designing for musical adult-child ludic engagement
Serious Work: How to Facilitate Meetings & Workshops Using the Lego Serious Play Method
Ultrasonographic investigation of human fetus responses to maternal communicative and non-communicative stimuli
An early childhood education curriculum that responds to children's voices on transition to first grade
Tickling induces reward in adolescent rats
The Kingdom of Childhood: Introductory Talks on Waldorf Education
Paternal and maternal engagement in play, story-telling, and reading in five Caribbean countries
A Playful Path
Physical activity and outdoor play of children in public playgrounds: Do gender and social environment matter?
The scope and future direction of child life
Hunter-Gatherers and Play
She more than he: Gender bias supports the empathic nature of yawn contagion in Homo sapiens
Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn and Grow
Playing for social equality
The Normal Course in Play
Children's abilities to communicate with both parents in infancy were related to their social competence at the age of 15
Mediating family play: Exploring the expectations of digital media through a mobile application
Rough-and-tumble play in human children
The 'Id' knows more than the 'ego' admits: Neuropsychoanalytic and primal consciousness perspectives
Play = Learning
Healthy play, better coping: The importance of play for the development of children in health and disease
Playful Awakening – Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life
BDNF expression increases without changes in play behavior following concussion in juvenile rats (Rattus Norvegicus)
Growing Without Schooling Volume 1 (GWS: The Complete Collection)
Relationship between mother-infant mutual dyadic responsiveness and premature infant development
The Primacy of Movement
Children's games during school recess in the first cycle of basic education in northern Portugal
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Many splendored things: Sexuality, playfulness and play
In Play We Trust. Rapid Facial Mimicry Predicts the Duration of Playful Interactions in Geladas
Playing and Learning Outdoors: Making Provision for High-Quality Experiences in the Outdoor Environment with Children 3-7
Does theory translate into practice? An observational study of current mathematics pedagogies in play-based kindergarten
Play, Physical Activity, and Public Health
Children at Play: An American History
From Neurons to Neighborhoods – The Science of Early Childhood Development
Animal Play Behavior
A child-centered play therapy workshop for professional elementary school counselors: An exploratory study
Pattern in Behavior: The Characterization, Origins, and Evolution of Behavior Patterns
Play in fishes, frogs and reptiles
Pattern of video game use in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and typical development
The need for Inuit parents' perspectives on outdoor risky play
Influence of functional mobility and manual function on play in preschool children with cerebral palsy
Playful Rebellion: Transform Serious Work with the Power of Play
The longitudinal relationship between generalized self-efficacy and physical activity in school-aged children
The Play of Animals
Infants' visual sustained attention is higher during joint play than solo play
Young children's spatial autonomy in their home environment and a forest setting
Stranger to familiar: Wild strepsirhines manage xenophobia by playing
Playful learning: Tools, techniques, and tactics
Play from Birth to Twelve
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
How to design and equip a mentalization-based play therapy room
Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children
Associations between father involvement and father-child attachment security: Variations based on timing and type of involvement
Tactile Stimulation During Development Attenuates Amphetamine Sensitization
The Play's the Thing: Teachers' Roles in Children's Play
Experience and cortical control over the pubertal transition to rougher play fighting in rats
Glutamatergic modulation of separation distress: Profound emotional effects of excitatory amino acids in chicks
Measurement, structural, and functional invariance of parent-child play quality coding across multiple games and parent gender
Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play
Play To Talk: A Practical Guide to Help Your Late-Talking Child Join the Conversation
Creativity, Play, and the Pace of Evolution
Efficacy of the flipped classroom to teach play therapy: A mixed-methods study
The Backyard Play Revolution
More than Collectors: Exploring Theorists', Hobbyists' and Everyday Players' Rhetoric in Adult Play With Character Toys
Change over time in the type and functions of crib speech around the fourth birthday
Affective neuroscience strategies for understanding and treating depression: From preclinical models to three novel therapeutics
On-task behavior of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Examining treatment effectiveness of play therapy interventions
To play or not to play? That's a resource abundance question
Preschool Gender-Typed Play Behavior at Age 3.5 Years Predicts Physical Aggression at Age 13 Years
Toddlers' social competence, play, movement skills and well-being
Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication
Work and Play in Early Childhood
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bond: Focus on Children in Poverty
Systematic Review of Research into the Impact of Loose Parts Play
Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy
The concept and measurement of fathers' stimulating play: A review
The origins, evolution and interconnections of play and ritual: Setting the stage
Emotional endophenotypes in evolutionary psychiatry
Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Let the Children Play
Brief Report: Effects of Video-Based Group Instruction on Spontaneous Social Interaction of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Play is the Way: Child development, Early Years and the Future of Scottish Education
Technology & Play
Rethinking children's roles in participatory design: The child as a process designer
Origins of Effortful Control: Infant and Parent Contributions
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Influence of Peers on Exploration during Play
Peripubertal stress increases play fighting at adolescence and modulates nucleus accumbens CB1 receptor expression
Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness
Problem of reptile play: Environmental enrichment and play behavior in a captive Nile soft-shelled turtle
Drama as physical role-play: actions and outcomes for life science lessons in South Africa
The Adulteration of Children's Sports
Changes in after-school time use in Cyprus: Play and education
Are 50-kHz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? I. Evidence from the timing and context of their use
Temperament is associated with outdoor free play in young children: A target kids! study
Outcomes of a hospital-based recreation program
The emergence of functional play in infants: Evidence for a major cognitive transition
Physical education in early childhood education: Implications for primary school curricula
Three Evidence-Based Strategies that Support Social Skills and Play Among Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Role of Nature and Nurture for Individual Differences in Primary Emotional Systems: Evidence from a Twin Study
Play in American Life, Vol. 2: Essays in Honor of Joe L. Frost
Playwork: Partnerships for Play
Is digital dexterity really related to corticospinal projections?
The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play
The archaeology of mind [extracts]
Play therapists' perceptions of wellness and self-care practices
Growing Without Schooling, Volume 3: The Complete Collection
The Archaeology of the Mind, Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
Play, Learn, and Enjoy! A Self-Regulation Curriculum for Children
The game and creative cognition: A proposal of intervention
The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents
Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of Children's Learning
Beyond uniform reproduction: Exploring children's imaginative play through the lenses of their teacher
Play, childhood, and playthings in Bor, South Sudan
Parents Views of Father Child Rough-and-Tumble Play
Room for improvement: Girls' and boys' home environments are still gendered
Designing for Play
Developing a Teddy Bear Therapy Training Program for Family Therapists
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Zombies and ethical theories: Exploring transformational play as a framework for teaching with videogames
The Aesthetic of Play (The MIT Press)
Why can't we all just get along? Integration needs more than stories
Child-Centered Play Therapy: Aggression, Empathy, and Self-Regulation
Labyrinthine and visual involvement in the dorsal immobility response of adult rats
Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of the risks and benefits of screen time and physical activity during early childhood
Tailoring parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) for older children: A case study
Children's clapping games on the virtual playground
Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
The Intellectual Lives of Children
The effects of early social isolation on the motivation for social play in juvenile rats
Exploring types of play in an adapted robotics program for children with disabilities
The use of augmented toys to facilitate play in school-aged children with visual impairments
"An idea is in your body": Technology and Transformation in the Early Childhood Classroom
Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices
Parental correlates of outdoor play in boys and girls aged 0 to 12: A systematic review
Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective
The Handbook of Developmentally Appropriate Toys
Beyond a joke: From animal laughter to human joy?
Adult Play: The Dirty Secret of Grown-Ups
Balanced and Barefoot
Intensive child-centered play therapy in a remote Australian Aboriginal community
Story Drama in the Special Needs Classroom
Play-based creativity fostering practices: The effects of different pedagogical approaches on children's creative thinking behaviours
Pedestrian traffic safety and outdoor active play among 10-13 year olds living in a mid-sized city
What are the outcomes for children born preterm and how can interventions meet their needs?
Why Normal Isn't Healthy
Young children's experiences with contemporary art
Primed to Perform
Creating the Freedom to Move: Reply to Goldberg and Grusky
The Unschooling Unmanual
Childhood collecting in nature: Quality experience in important places
Developmentally Appropriate Play: Guiding Young Children to a Higher Level
Children's Play and Playgrounds
Maternal into-the-face behavior, shared attention, and infant distress during face-to-face play at 12 months
Girls' perspectives on the ideal school playground experience: An exploratory study of four Australian primary schools
Symbolic Play in School-Aged Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Discovering the Importance of Play through Personal Histories and Brain Images
Why Play Works: Big Changes Start Small
Affect Regulation and the Origin of Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development
In search of the neurobiological substrates for social playfulness in mammalian brains
Adolescents' emotional competence is associated with parents' neural sensitivity to emotions
The integrated creativity from the analysis of artistic experiences with people with diverse abilities in academic contexts
Modeling play: distinguishing between origins and current functions
Juvenile social experience and differential age-related changes in the dendritic morphologies of subareas of the prefrontal cortex in rats
The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in motivated behavior
Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training
Observed free play patterns of children with ADHD and their real-life friends
The Impact of Speed of Play in Gambling on Psychological and Behavioural Factors: A Critical Review
Low levels of after-school hours social interaction and physical activity of 5-7 year olds
Adapting LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology in higher education
KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play
Play and social dynamics in a captive herd of gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada)
Learning All the Time
Design for Play: A Guide to Creating Successful Play Spaces
What If Everybody Understood Child Development?
Differences in teachers verbal responsiveness to groups of children with ASD who vary in cognitive and language abilities
Play to Learn: Everything You Need to Know About Designing Effective Learning Games
What is the relationship between risky outdoor play and health in children? A systematic review
Adult Play and Sexual Selection
Free to Learn
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Effects of joint video modeling on unscripted play behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder
Mother-Child Interactive Behaviors and Cognition in Preschoolers Born Preterm and Full Term
Outdoor play and nature connectedness as potential correlates of internalized mental health symptoms among Canadian adolescents
The function of play for coping and therapy with children exposed to disasters and political violence
Chinese mothers' profile which values both play and academics predicts better developmental outcome in young children
Can playfulness be stimulated? A randomized placebo-controlled online playfulness intervention study
Play distraction versus pharmacological treatment to reduce anxiety levels in children undergoing day surgery
Integration of play, learning, and experience: What museums afford young visitors
Young Children Are Natural Inquirers: Posing and Solving Mathematical Problems.
Increasing Object-Substitution Symbolic Play in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Effects of neonatal handling on play and anxiety in F344 and Lewis rats
Parents' beliefs about young children's play and nature experiences in Danish and US contexts
Teach, Play, Learn!: How to Create a Purposeful Play-Driven Classroom
The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play
The Developmental Benefits of Playgrounds
An evaluation of group activity schedules to promote social play in children with autism
Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
Octodon degus: A useful animal model for social-affective neuroscience research
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Rediscovering the adult play group
Differences in play can illuminate differences in affiliation: A comparative study on chimpanzees and gorillas
Play as Preparation for Learning and Life
Growing Without Schooling Volume 2
The Handbook of the Study of Play
Play and optimal welfare: Does play indicate the presence of positive affective states?
What is the state of play?
Factors related to the use of play therapy among elementary school counselors
The Self Respecting Child – Development Through Spontaneous Play
"My doll says it's ok": A study of children's conformity to a talking doll
Clinical outcomes of interactive intensive and individual (3i) play therapy for children with ASD: A two-year follow-up study
From Play to Practice: Connecting Teachers' Play to Children's Learning
The efficiency of infants' exploratory play is related to longer-term cognitive development
Mobile exergaming in adolescents' everyday life
Rough & Tumble Play
Perspectives – Minimizing Observer Bias in Behavioral Studies: A Review and Recommendations
Improving Chinese Teachers' Stress Coping Ability through Group Sandplay
Understanding children's motives when using iPads in Saudi classrooms: is it for play or for learning?
Child-Parent Relationship Therapy with Extra-Familial Abused Children
Group selection and the group mind in science
The modulation of play fighting in rats: Role of the motor cortex
Reading aloud, play, and social-emotional development
The Art of Roughhousing
Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives
The Cambridge Handbook of Play
Alibis for Adult Play: A Goffmanian Account of Escaping Embarrassment in Adult Play
The Long Shadow of Temperament