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dc.contributor.authorSandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen
dc.contributor.authorKennair, Leif Edward Ottesen
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02T11:49:10Z
dc.date.available2020-10-02T11:49:10Z
dc.date.created2011-06-21T10:47:09Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationSandseter, E.B.H., Kennair, L. E.O. (2011). Children’s Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences .Evolutionary Psychology, 9 (2), 257-284.
dc.identifier.issn1474-7049
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2680940
dc.description.abstractThis theoretical article views children’s risky play from an evolutionary perspective, addressing specific evolutionary functions and especially the anti-phobic effects of risky play. According to the non-associative theory, a contemporary approach to the etiology of anxiety, children develop fears of certain stimuli (e.g., heights and strangers) that protect them from situations they are not mature enough to cope with, naturally through infancy. Risky play is a set of motivated behaviors that both provide the child with an exhilarating positive emotion and expose the child to the stimuli they previously have feared. As the child’s coping skills improve, these situations and stimuli may be mastered and no longer be feared. Thus fear caused by maturational and age relevant natural inhibition is reduced as the child experiences a motivating thrilling activation, while learning to master age adequate challenges. It is concluded that risky play may have evolved due to this anti-phobic effect in normal child development, and it is suggested that we may observe an increased neuroticism or psychopathology in society if children are hindered from partaking in age adequate risky play.
dc.description.abstractChildren’s Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleChildren’s Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.source.pagenumber257-284.
dc.source.volume9
dc.source.journalEvolutionary Psychology
dc.source.issue2
dc.identifier.cristin826402
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cristin.unitnameDronning Mauds Minne Høgskole for barnehagelærerutdanning
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