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This book provides an overview of recent research presenting conflicting interpretations of children's understanding of the psychology of pretense and describes sociocultural factors which influence children's pretenses. Studies of nonhuman primates provide examples of their pretenses and other simulative activities, explore their representational and imaginative capacities and compare their skills with children. Although the psychological requirements for pretending are controversial, evidence presented in this volume suggests that great apes and even monkeys may share capacities for imagination with children and that children's early pretenses may be less psychological than they appear.
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Anthropologists and psychologists from Europe and North America share their findings from observing activities similar to pretense by children and other lesser primates. They consider such topics as developmental and comparative perspectives on pretending as representation, caregiver-child social pretend play, and play and simulation in the evolution of primate societies. Evidence from animals may eventually help establish a psychologically and evolutionarily plausible account of fictive acts of perceiving. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From the Publisher
"Written in a careful, thought-provoking manner, these papers are well worth the effort required to understand most of them." Choice"This is a stimulating book." Ethology
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ROBERT W. MITCHELL is Professor of Psychology at the Eastern Kentucky University. He is currently interested in exploring the significance of kinesthetic-visual matching in human and animal behavior, experience and self-understanding, and is writing a history of scientific attitudes toward using anthropomorphism to understand animals. Professor Mitchell's previous books include Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans (1994, ISBN 0521441080), edited with S. T. Parker and M. L. Boccia, and The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans (1999, ISBN 0521580277), edited with S. T. Parker and H. L. Miles.
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