Current perspectives on the biological study of play: signs of progress

KL Graham, GM Burghardt - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the study of play behavior, marked by
much empirical research and theoretical review. These efforts suggest that play may be of …

[图书][B] The genesis of animal play: Testing the limits

GM Burghardt - 2005 - books.google.com
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life

K Brauer, RT Proyer, G Chick - Social and Personality …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing interest in the study of individual differences in playfulness in adults; the
way people frame or reframe situations in a way that they are experienced as personally …

A new structural model for the study of adult playfulness: Assessment and exploration of an understudied individual differences variable

RT Proyer - Personality and Individual Differences, 2017 - Elsevier
Adult playfulness is an understudied personality trait. A new 28-item questionnaire (the
OLIW) is proposed that assesses four basic components; namely, Other-directed …

Can playfulness be stimulated? A randomised placebo‐controlled online playfulness intervention study on effects on trait playfulness, well‐being, and depression

RT Proyer, F Gander, K Brauer… - … Psychology: Health and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background While there are numerous applications of play‐based interventions, there is
little research on playfulness‐based interventions. We applied interventions that aim at …

The positive relationships of playfulness with indicators of health, activity, and physical fitness

RT Proyer, F Gander, EJ Bertenshaw… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Adult playfulness is a personality trait that enables people to frame or reframe everyday
situations in such a way that they experience them as entertaining, intellectually stimulating …

Play and mate preference: testing the signal theory of adult playfulness.

G Chick, C Yarnal, A Purrington - American Journal of Play, 2012 - ERIC
The overwhelming majority of play research concerns juveniles. However, a full
understanding of the phenomenon requires knowledge of play and playfulness across the …

Exploring adult playfulness: examining the accuracy of personality judgments at zero-acquaintance and an LIWC analysis of textual information

RT Proyer, K Brauer - Journal of Research in Personality, 2018 - Elsevier
Playfulness is an individual difference variable that allows people to (re) frame a situation in
a way that it is experienced as entertaining, intellectually stimulating, and/or personally …

Adult playfulness and relationship satisfaction: An APIM analysis of romantic couples

RT Proyer, K Brauer, A Wolf, G Chick - Journal of Research in Personality, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that adult playfulness contributes to relationship satisfaction
(RS). Using 211 heterosexual romantic couples we test the association between four facets …

Extending the study of playfulness in romantic life: Analyzing associations with attachment and jealousy in same-gender and opposite-gender couples

K Brauer, R Sendatzki, RT Proyer - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Adult playfulness describes individual differences in (re) framing situations so that they are
experienced as entertaining, and/or interesting, and/or intellectually stimulating. There is …