Does Playing Pay? The Fitness-Effect of Free Play during Childhood

Evolutionary developmental psychology claims that the sequences and processes of human development, in fact the mere fact of ontogeny itself, have to be viewed as evolutionary products. However, although the functional benefits of childish behavior (child playing) for cognitive and emotional develop...

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Main Authors: Werner Greve, Tamara Thomsen, Cornelia Dehio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200210