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Imaginary Worldplay in Childhood and Maturity and Its Impact on Adult Creativity

Pages 405-425 | Published online: 08 Jun 2010

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Michele Root-Bernstein & Robert Root-Bernstein. (2023) Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence. Creativity Research Journal 35:1, pages 116-142.
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Marjorie Taylor, Candice M. Mottweiler, Emilee R. Naylor & Jacob G. Levernier. (2015) Imaginary Worlds in Middle Childhood: A Qualitative Study of Two Pairs of Coordinated Paracosms. Creativity Research Journal 27:2, pages 167-174.
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Sabha Hakim Allehyani. (2023) Bilingualism matters: Early childhood teachers' attitudes toward children's creativity. Journal of Childhood, Education & Society 4:1, pages 72-83.
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Louise Taylor Bunce & Elizabeth A. Boerger. (2022) Openness to Experience Mediates the Relation Between Fantasy Proneness and Creative Thinking. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 42:2, pages 192-214.
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Chia-Chi Wang, Hsiao-Chi Ho & Chih-Ling Cheng. (2022) Examining the Learning Progression of Undergraduate Students’ Scientific Imagination: A Measurement Perspective. SAGE Open 12:4, pages 215824402211449.
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Richard Wiseman & Caroline Watt. (2022) Experiencing the impossible and creativity: a targeted literature review. PeerJ 10, pages e13755.
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Salim Hashmi, Amy L. Paine, Mark K. Johansen, Charlotte Robinson & Dale F. Hay. (2022) Engaged in play: Seven-year-olds’ engagement with the play frame when playing with toy figures and their engagement with the fictional world of a video game. Cognitive Development 63, pages 101230.
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Svitlana Kryshtanovych, Valentyna Bilyk, Olena Matvienko, Liudmyla Stepanenko & Hanna Tsvietkova. (2022) INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ON THE LEVEL OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION. Creativity Studies 15:2, pages 406-419.
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Mark A. Runco, Aubra Shepard & Harun Tadik. (2022) How much creative potential is expressed at work?. Journal of Creativity 32:1, pages 100016.
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Eric Worch, Michael Odell & Mitchell Magdich. 2022. Play and STEM Education in the Early Years. Play and STEM Education in the Early Years 105 122 .
Sandra W. Russ. 2022. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible 1008 1014 .
Karla K. Fehr, Jessica D. Hoffmann, Danielle E. Chambers & Jennifer Ramasami. (2021) Feasibility of a group play intervention in early childhood. Journal of Creativity 31, pages 100008.
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Michele Root-Bernstein. 2021. The Cambridge Handbook of Lifespan Development of Creativity. The Cambridge Handbook of Lifespan Development of Creativity 327 350 .
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Annabelle Armah & Melissa Landers-Potts. (2021) A Review of Imaginary Companions and Their Implications for Development. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 41:1, pages 31-53.
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Maureen Claire Smith & Maria Fusaro. (2020) Imagination and Fantasy: Correlates of Preschoolers’ Science Relevant Inquisitiveness. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 40:4, pages 393-417.
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Sandra W. Russ. 2020. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible 1 7 .
Robert Root-Bernstein & Michele Root-Bernstein. 2021. Conceptions of Giftedness and Talent. Conceptions of Giftedness and Talent 357 370 .
Tracy R. Gleason, Sally A. Theran & Emily M. Newberg. (2019) Connections Between Adolescents’ Parasocial Interactions and Recollections of Childhood Imaginative Activities. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 39:3, pages 241-260.
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Marjorie Taylor, Candice M. Mottweiler, Naomi R. Aguiar, Emilee R. Naylor & Jacob G. Levernier. (2018) Paracosms: The Imaginary Worlds of Middle Childhood. Child Development 91:1.
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David Whitebread & Lisha O'Sullivan. 2020. Creativity and the Wandering Mind. Creativity and the Wandering Mind 205 230 .
Jacqueline D. Woolley, Louise Bunce & Elizabeth A. Boerger. 2020. Creativity and the Wandering Mind. Creativity and the Wandering Mind 181 203 .
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Sandra W. Russ & Ellen A. Doernberg. 2019. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity 607 622 .
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Nicole Leggett. (2017) Early Childhood Creativity: Challenging Educators in Their Role to Intentionally Develop Creative Thinking in Children. Early Childhood Education Journal 45:6, pages 845-853.
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Zhe Feng, Shelby Logan, Gerald Cupchik, Ute Ritterfeld & Dennis Gaffin. (2017) A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Imagination as a Process-Based Concept. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 37:1, pages 69-94.
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Naomi Ruth Aguiar, Candice M. Mottweilier, Marjorie Taylor & Philip A. Fisher. (2017) The Imaginary Companions Created by Children Who Have Lived in Foster Care. Imagination, Cognition and Personality 36:4, pages 340-355.
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Sandra W. Russ. (2016) Pretend Play: Antecedent of Adult Creativity. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 2016:151, pages 21-32.
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Deborah C. Letcher. (2014) Imagination. Nursing Science Quarterly 27:4, pages 287-291.
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