Volume 3, Number 4, Spring 2011

Interview

• Why Parents Should Stop Overprotecting Kids and Let Them Play: An Interview with Hara Estroff Marano and Lenore Skenazy

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Articles

• The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents

  by Peter Gray

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• Evolutionary Functions of Social Play: Life Histories, Sex Differences, and Emotion Regulation

  by Peter LaFreniere

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• Marbles and Machiavelli: The Role of Game Play in Children’s Social Development

  by David F. Lancy and M. Annette Grove

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• The Special Value of Children’s Age-Mixed Play

  by Peter Gray

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• Empowering Groups That Enable Play

  by David Sloan Wilson, Danielle Marshall, and Hindi Iserhott

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• The Design Your Own Park Competition: Empowering Neighborhoods and Restoring Outdoor Play on a Citywide Scale

  by David Sloan Wilson

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Book Reviews

• Anna R. Beresin, Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling

  by Marjorie Harness Goodwin

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• Deborah Meier, Brenda S. Engel, and Beth Taylor, Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground

  by Anna R. Beresin

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• Helene Guldberg, Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear

  by Claire S. Green

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• Anthony D. Pellegrini, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play

  by Doris Pronin Fromberg

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• James H. Evans Jr., Playing: Christian Explorations of Daily Life

  by Robert K. Johnston

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• J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, and Andras Lukacs, eds., Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies: Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play

  by Emma Westecott

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Contributors