Pretending with realistic and fantastical stories facilitates executive function in 3-year-old children.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105090
Abstract: Fictional stories can affect many aspects of children's behavior and cognition, yet little is known about how they might help or hinder children's executive function skills. The current study investigated the role of story content… read more here.
Keywords: story; control; executive function; pretense ... See more keywords
The role of pretense in the process of self-deception
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DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2020.1711960
Abstract: Gendler [2007. “Self-deception as Pretense.” Philosophical Perspectives 21 (1): 231–258] offers an account of self-deception in terms of imaginative pretense, according to which the self-deceptive state is a pretense rather than a doxastic attitude. The… read more here.
Keywords: deception; self deception; pretense; process ... See more keywords
An Analogical Model of Pretense
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13112
Abstract: We argue that pretense can be viewed as analogical projection: a structural comparison between the pretend scenario and its real-world counterpart that leads to inferences about the pretend scenario. For example, in pretending to make… read more here.
Keywords: pretense; analogical model; model; model pretense ... See more keywords