Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we
examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to …

Defining play has plagued researchers and philosophers for years. From describing play as
an inaccessible concept due to its complexity, to providing checklists of features, the field …

Young children are surrounded by fictional media, including books, videos, and games.
Often they are expected to learn new information from these explicitly fictional sources, while …

INTRODUCTION Music is often assumed to be a human universal, emerging from an
evolutionary adaptation specific to music and/or a by-product of adaptations for affect, language, …

… Hopkins, Hanne Jensen, Claire Liu, Dave Neale, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, S. Lynneth Solis
and David Whitebread … A recent review, for example, examines the impact of pretend play …

ACCURATE knowledge of skin friction and heat transfer is required to predict the performance
and structural requirements of supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. Generally, theory is …

Previous work showed that people find explanations more satisfying when they contain
irrelevant neuroscience information. The current studies investigate why this effect happens. In …

Previous work has found that people feel significantly more satisfied with explanations of
psychological phenomena when those explanations contain neuroscience information—even …

Biodegradable edible films have the potential to either replace or reduce the amount of
synthetic packaging utilized by the food industry. The overall goal of this research was to …

Trends in meteorological and ecological variables were calculated across the state of
Wisconsin from 1950 to 2006 to quantify recent patterns of climate change. In summary, annual …