War Play, Aggression and Peer Culture: A Review of the Research Examining the Relationship Between War Play and Aggression

Malloy, Heidi L.; McMurray-Schwarz, Paula

doi:10.1016/s0270-4021(04)13009-7

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“…In a more recent review that included studies that were more controlled, Malloy and McMurray-Schwarz (2004) concluded that violent toys sometimes serve as cues for real-life aggression, consistent with the Berkowitz (1993) aggressive cue hypothesis (1993). At least two studies reviewed supported this idea.…”

Section: "War Toys" and Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 77%

Fashion or action? Gender-stereotyped toys and social behavior.

Murnen

2018

Gender Typing of Children's Toys: How Early Play Experiences Impact Development.

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Although the average American adult might not know these specific toys from the Toys "R" Us website (http://www.toysrus.com), they could probably guess that one of them is intended for girls and the other for boys. Contemporary toys are very gender stereotyped, even more so than was true in years past (Sweet, 2012). Feminine-stereotyped toys promote domesticity, nurturance, and a focus on appearance, and masculine stereotyped toys encourage riskiness, assertiveness, and a focus on action (Blakemore & Centers, 2005; see also Chapter 4, this volume). Most children play with toys that are stereotyped for their gender, so it is important to understand how stereotyped toys affect children's social development. In this chapter, I review research on the characteristics of gender-stereotyped toys that might influence children's social development. I propose that gendered toys help train children for gendered social roles. It is still the case that women are more associated with caretaking roles in the home and men are more associated with risk-taking

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Section: "War Toys" and Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 77%

Fashion or action? Gender-stereotyped toys and social behavior.

Murnen

2018

Gender Typing of Children's Toys: How Early Play Experiences Impact Development.

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“…Our focus on domestic play provides an important addition to interdisciplinary research on war play that has overwhelmingly focused on school settings. Subsequently, this research tends to have a narrow focus on the behavioural effects of war toys, and is often inattentive to the wider social contexts within which children's play is situated (Goldstein 1992;Malloy and McMurray-Schwarz 2004;Rosen 2015a). Some recent work has been more attentive to wider media influences on children's play (Holland 2003) and the advantages of figurative approaches to death tropes within play (Rosen 2015b), but these largely remain rooted within school-settings.…”

Section: Reframing Popular Geopolitics Through Domesticationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domesticating the Geopolitical: Rethinking Popular Geopolitics through Play

Woodyer

Carter

2018

Geopolitics

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In this paper, we take the emergence of the Her Majesty's Armed Forces toy range in 2009 as a starting point for thinking through the domestication of geopolitics through practices of play. Empirically, the paper draws upon substantive, innovative and original research undertaken with children in their homes, via a series of play ethnographies; conceptually, the paper draws upon the notion of 'domestication' and argues that ideas from these literatures might be usefully adopted as a means of reconfiguring popular geopolitics. In so doing, we argue not only that toys, games and play warrant much greater attention as forms of popular geopolitics, but also that the idea of domestication has much to offer wider conceptions and framings around popular geopolitics itself. The paper thus advances claims for a significant reformulation of popular geopolitics as an encounter between texts, objects, bodies and practices. More specifically, the rich ambiguity of the observed practices emerging from our playcentred ethnographic approach speaks clearly to the need to avoid prioritising the public over the private, cultural producers over audience, and the discursive over the affective in our theorisations of domestication. While we should be attentive to the highly orchestrated practices of anticipating domesticity and the multiple sites of geographical production assembled though these practices, we should not ignore the excess inherent within the incomplete, experimental process of domestication.

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“…Current research views play not as an unimportant pastime, but as a critical component of early childhood programs because of its positive impact upon social, physical, cognitive and emotional development (Calabrese, 2003). In short, play is the foundation of young children's growth and development (Malloy & McMurray-Schwarz, 2004). During play, children advance their physical, cognitive, communicative and social-emotional development (Hewes & McEwan, 2006;Nagel 2012).…”

Section: Young Children's Playmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing research involving rough-and-tumble play (Jarvis, 2007;Pellegrini, 1987;Smith & Lewis, 1984;Tannock, 2008), risky play (Sandseter, 2009), superhero play (Bauer & Dettore, 1997), 'bad guy' play (Logue & Detour, 2011), active play (Logue & Harvey, 2010), play fighting (Hart & Tannock, 2013a;Pellis & Pellis, 2007), big body play (Carlson, 2011), war play (Levin & Carlsson-Paige, 2006;Hellendoorn & Harinck, 1997;Malloy & McMurray-Schwarz, 2004) and physically active and imaginative play (Parsons & Howe, 2006) describe similar playful aggressive behavioural characteristics. Given the numerous terms used to define similar play behaviour, teachers struggle to recognise the benefits and support children's engagement of playful aggression (Hart & Tannock, 2013a).…”

Section: Playful Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Playful aggression is a highly sophisticated activity that builds community among the players, and behaviour that violates its rules should be banned, not the play itself (Freeman & Brown, 2004). Playful aggression among young children involves rules and routines that vary between the context of the play such as level of friendship, setting, culture, gender and age (Freeman & Brown, 2004;Hart & Tannock, 2013b;Malloy & McMurray-Schwarz, 2004;Reed, Brown & Roth, 2000;Pellegrini, 1989aPellegrini, , 1989bPellegrini, , 1994. Because violence within sports is dependent on the rules and routines of the specific event (Miethe & Deibert, 2007), young children's exposure to varying levels of adults' aggressive behaviour is cause for confusion as to why such behaviour is socially acceptable in particular settings (e.g.…”

Section: Societal Influences On Playful Aggressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Including Playful Aggression in Early Childhood Curriculum and Pedagogy

Hart

Nagel

2017

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

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THE APPROPRIATENESS OF YOUNG children's playful aggression within early childhood settings continues to be debated among early childhood professionals. Research suggests that children's play—all types of play—should be the foundation of early childhood practice; however, playful aggression continues to be a neglected aspect of early childhood curricula. While decades of research identify the significant developmental benefits within multiple domains of learning as derived from various aspects of play, strict policies prohibiting playful aggression remain. With a growing number of young children enrolled in preschool programs it is important for educators to provide beneficial and inclusive experiences conducive to fostering optimal development of young children in all learning domains. This article suggests that the intolerance of children's playful aggression may reduce their optimal development; more specifically, their cognitive, social, physical and communicative development may be limited or hindered due to the omission and/or exclusion of playfully aggressive opportunities.

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War Play, Aggression and Peer Culture: A Review of the Research Examining the Relationship Between War Play and Aggression

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Fashion or action? Gender-stereotyped toys and social behavior.

Fashion or action? Gender-stereotyped toys and social behavior.

Domesticating the Geopolitical: Rethinking Popular Geopolitics through Play

Including Playful Aggression in Early Childhood Curriculum and Pedagogy

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