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- Title
Play, animals, resources: The need for a rich (and challenging) comparative environment.
- Authors
Burghardt, Gordon M.
- Abstract
Van de Vliert proposes a comprehensive explanation for differences in “freedoms” in diverse human populations based on climate and monetary resources. This intriguing approach, though derived from an evolutionary view covering all species, is based exclusively on human populations. This anthropocentric lens is challenged by ways of testing Van de Vliert's thesis more generally using playfulness as a surrogate for freedom.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL research; COMPARATIVE studies; LIBERTY; EVOLUTIONARY theories; ANTHROPOCENTRISM; RECREATION; HUMAN behavior research
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 5, p484
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X1300006X