Play and Playthings

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A quarter century of progress on the early detection and treatment of autism spectrum disorder. 
  • A transactional model of parent-infant interactions in alcoholic families. 
  • Accuracy in judgments of aggressiveness. 
  • Action video game playing is associated with improved visual sensitivity, but not alterations in visual sensory memory. 
  • Anxious solitude across contexts: girls' interactions with familiar and unfamiliar peers. 
  • Approach and exploration of a novel alternative by 12-month-old infants. 
  • Assessing care providers' perceptions and beliefs about physical activity in infants and toddlers: baseline findings from the Baby NAP SACC study. 
  • Beyond the windshield: scavenging community data. 
  • Bonobos voluntarily hand food to others but not toys or tools. 
  • Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries. 
  • Children's Play and Culture Learning in an Egalitarian Foraging Society. 
  • Contribution of pastimes and testing strategies to the performance of healthy volunteers on cognitive tests. 
  • Distorting reality for children: body size proportions of Barbie and Ken dolls. 
  • Early predictors of communication development in young children with autism spectrum disorder: joint attention, imitation, and toy play. 
  • Early social, imitation, play, and language abilities of young non-autistic siblings of children with autism. 
  • Effects of a procedure derived from the overcorrection principle on manipulated and nonmanipulated behaviors. 
  • Effects of a verbal warning and overcorrection on stereotyped and appropriate behaviors. 
  • Evidence for the Adaptive Learning Function of Work and Work-Themed Play among Aka Forager and Ngandu Farmer Children from the Congo Basin. 
  • Executive function predicts the development of play skills for verbal preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Eye injuries associated with paintball guns. 
  • Family ties: constructing family time in low-income families. 
  • Feeding and non-feeding interactions of mothers and prematures. 
  • Group social context and children's aggressive behavior. 
  • Imitation and social responsiveness in autistic children. 
  • Impact of San Francisco's toy ordinance on restaurants and children's food purchases, 2011-2012. 
  • Individual-group behavioral similarity and peer status in experimental play groups of boys: the social misfit revisited. 
  • Infant arousal in an en-face exchange with a new partner: effects of prematurity and perinatal biological risk. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers exhibit atypical frontal electrical brain activity during interactions with mother and with a familiar, nondepressed adult. 
  • It takes two to fight: a test of relational factors and a method for assessing aggressive dyads. 
  • Mine or yours? Development of sharing in toddlers in relation to ownership understanding. 
  • Neuromarketing: the hope and hype of neuroimaging in business. 
  • Peer status and aggression in boys' groups: developmental and contextual analyses. 
  • Physical activity-related and weather-related practices of child care centers from 2 states. 
  • Playing with pets and longevity among older people. 
  • Reactive and proactive aggression in childhood: relations to peer status and social context dimensions. 
  • Social stimulation and joint attention in young autistic children. 
  • Social-cognitive and behavioral correlates of aggression and victimization in boys' play groups. 
  • Temperament Is Associated With Outdoor Free Play in Young Children: A TARGet Kids! Study. 
  • The best friendships of aggressive boys: relationship quality, conflict management, and rule-breaking behavior. 
  • The dyadic nature of social information processing in boys' reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • The emergence of chronic peer victimization in boys' play groups. 
  • The fulfillment of others' needs elevates children's body posture. 
  • The infant's free entry into a new environment. 
  • The physical environment in family childcare homes and children's physical activity. 
  • The relationship between social play and developmental milestones in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). 
  • Three-Year-Olds' Reactions to a Partner's Failure to Perform Her Role in a Joint Commitment. 
  • Toddlers' understanding of peers' emotions. 
  • Toy balloons and eye injuries. 
  • Toy story: why do monkey and human males prefer trucks? Comment on "Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children" by Hassett, Siebert and Wallen. 
  • Toys and social interaction between infant peers. 
  • Transtheoretical Model Based Exercise Counseling Combined with Music Skipping Rope Exercise on Childhood Obesity. 
  • Trick, treat, or toy: children are just as likely to choose toys as candy on halloween. 
  • Validation of the phenomenon of autistic regression using home videotapes. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society