Pretensive Shared Reality: From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play

Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via the term “pretensive shared reality;” Shared Pretensive Reality describes the ability of a gr...

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Main Authors: Rohan Kapitany, Tomas Hampejs, Thalia R. Goldstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085/full