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KAPITANY, Rohan, Tomáš HAMPEJS and Thalia R. GOLDSTEIN. Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2022, vol. 13, No 2022, p. 1-19. ISSN 1664-1078. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085.

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - 2218775
AU  - Kapitany, Rohan - Hampejs, Tomáš - Goldstein, Thalia R.
PY  - 2022
TI  - Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play
JF  - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
VL  - 13
IS  - 2022
SP  - 1-19
EP  - 1-19
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
SN  - 16641078
KW  - pretense
KW  - pretend play
KW  - games
KW  - imagination
KW  - table-top role playing
KW  - Dungeons & Dragons
KW  - pretensive shared reality
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085/full
N2  - Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via the term "pretensive shared reality;" Shared Pretensive Reality describes the ability of a group of individuals to employ a range of higher-order cognitive functions to explicitly and implicitly share representations of a bounded fictional reality in predictable and coherent ways, such that this constructed reality may be explored and invented/embellished with shared intentionality in an ad hoc manner. Pretensive Shared Reality facilitates multiple individual and social outcomes, including generating personal and group-level enjoyment or mirth, the creation or maintenance of social groups, or the safe exploration of individual self-concepts (such as alternative expression of a players sexual or gender identity). Importantly, Pretensive Shared Reality (both within the specific context of table-top role-playing games, and other instances) are primarily co-operative and co-creative. We draw on multiple examples, and focus on Table-Top Role Playing games (TTRPG) - and specifically, the most popular and enduring table-top role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) - as a primary example of such play. Our conception of "pretensive shared reality" links the widespread existence and forms of adult imaginative play to childhood pretense, places it within a developmental and evolutionary context, and argues that pretensive shared realities - which underpin many forms of imaginative culture - are an important topic of study unto themselves, and may be utilized to provide methodological insight into a variety of psychological domains.
ER  -

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Original name	Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play
Authors	KAPITANY, Rohan (36 Australia), Tomáš HAMPEJS (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Thalia R. GOLDSTEIN (840 United States of America).
Edition	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, Lausanne, Frontiers Media SA, 2022, 1664-1078.

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Article in a journal
Field of Study	60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher	Switzerland
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
Impact factor	Impact factor: 3.800
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14210/22:00126701
Organization unit	Faculty of Arts
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085
UT WoS	000770561400001
Keywords in English	pretense; pretend play; games; imagination; table-top role playing; Dungeons & Dragons; pretensive shared reality
Tags	rivok
Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová, učo 361753. Changed: 22/3/2023 10:41.

Abstract
Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via the term "pretensive shared reality;" Shared Pretensive Reality describes the ability of a group of individuals to employ a range of higher-order cognitive functions to explicitly and implicitly share representations of a bounded fictional reality in predictable and coherent ways, such that this constructed reality may be explored and invented/embellished with shared intentionality in an ad hoc manner. Pretensive Shared Reality facilitates multiple individual and social outcomes, including generating personal and group-level enjoyment or mirth, the creation or maintenance of social groups, or the safe exploration of individual self-concepts (such as alternative expression of a players sexual or gender identity). Importantly, Pretensive Shared Reality (both within the specific context of table-top role-playing games, and other instances) are primarily co-operative and co-creative. We draw on multiple examples, and focus on Table-Top Role Playing games (TTRPG) - and specifically, the most popular and enduring table-top role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) - as a primary example of such play. Our conception of "pretensive shared reality" links the widespread existence and forms of adult imaginative play to childhood pretense, places it within a developmental and evolutionary context, and argues that pretensive shared realities - which underpin many forms of imaginative culture - are an important topic of study unto themselves, and may be utilized to provide methodological insight into a variety of psychological domains.

Abstract

Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via the term "pretensive shared reality;" Shared Pretensive Reality describes the ability of a group of individuals to employ a range of higher-order cognitive functions to explicitly and implicitly share representations of a bounded fictional reality in predictable and coherent ways, such that this constructed reality may be explored and invented/embellished with shared intentionality in an ad hoc manner. Pretensive Shared Reality facilitates multiple individual and social outcomes, including generating personal and group-level enjoyment or mirth, the creation or maintenance of social groups, or the safe exploration of individual self-concepts (such as alternative expression of a players sexual or gender identity). Importantly, Pretensive Shared Reality (both within the specific context of table-top role-playing games, and other instances) are primarily co-operative and co-creative. We draw on multiple examples, and focus on Table-Top Role Playing games (TTRPG) - and specifically, the most popular and enduring table-top role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) - as a primary example of such play. Our conception of "pretensive shared reality" links the widespread existence and forms of adult imaginative play to childhood pretense, places it within a developmental and evolutionary context, and argues that pretensive shared realities - which underpin many forms of imaginative culture - are an important topic of study unto themselves, and may be utilized to provide methodological insight into a variety of psychological domains.

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