Fun is more fun when others are involved

Animal Cognition: Time Flies When Chimps Are Having Fun

Chimpanzees, like children, actively distract themselves to cope with waiting for a desired but delayed reward. Self-control may thus be a capacity we share with our nonhuman primate relatives.

Are we having fun yet?

Are you stressed out? Is your in box taller than you are? Do you have suicide hotline on speed dial? If you're not having fun at work, you're not alone.

Serious fun: preschoolers engage in more exploratory play when evidence is confounded.

Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that children are poor at designing informative experiments; children fail to control relevant variables and tend to alter multiple variables simultaneously. Thus, little is known about how children's spontaneous exploration migh...

Playful Probing: Making Probing More Fun

We present a methodological variation of cultural probing called playful probing. In playful probing games are developed according to the area investigated, to enhance participants’ involvement in the studies. The games are used as additional probing material and enhance participants’ involvement. Based on an experimental case study with 40 households participating in a ethnographic study on ne...

When some are more equal than others.