Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play

@article{2218775,
   author = {Kapitany, Rohan and Hampejs, Tomáš and Goldstein, Thalia R.},
   article_location = {Lausanne},
   article_number = {2022},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085},
   keywords = {pretense; pretend play; games; imagination; table-top role playing; Dungeons & Dragons; pretensive shared reality},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {1664-1078},
   journal = {FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY},
   title = {Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play},
   url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085/full},
   volume = {13},
   year = {2022}
}

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.
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KAPITANY, Rohan, Tomáš HAMPEJS a Thalia R. GOLDSTEIN. Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play. \textit{FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY}. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2022, roč.~13, č.~2022, s.~1-19. ISSN~1664-1078. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085.