A new study exploring the origins of pretend play suggests infants perform interactional patterns with elements of pretense a lot earlier than thought. Pretend play is often considered a developmental ...

Babies recognize pretense and around half of children can pretend themselves by 12 months, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bristol, shows for the first time how children's ...

This post was co-written by Dr. Thalia R. Goldstein (posted on her blog here), and Brittany Thompson. The post describes an academic paper recently published in Child Development. One possible ...