Volume 3, Number 4

Spring 2011

Editor's Note

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

Empowering Groups That Enable Play

David Sloan Wilson, Danielle Marshall, and Hindi Iserhott

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

Peter LaFreniere

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

Peter Gray

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

David F. Lancy and M. Annette Grove

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

David Sloan Wilson

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The Special Value of Children’s Age-Mixed Play

Peter Gray

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Book Reviews

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

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

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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

Emma Westecott

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

Claire S. Green

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

Anna R. Beresin

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

Doris Pronin Fromberg

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

Robert K. Johnston

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Contributors