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Not-real worlds

Not-real worlds. Pretense Real  Pretend Honor constraints Pretend  Real Counter-normative pretend play? Dreams Real  Dream Honor constraints? Allow fantasy? Dream  Real. Imaginary companions and paracosms Real  Imaginary Violations of real-world constraints

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Not-real worlds

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  1. Not-real worlds • Pretense • Real  Pretend • Honor constraints • Pretend  Real • Counter-normative pretend play? • Dreams • Real  Dream • Honor constraints? Allow fantasy? • Dream  Real

  2. Imaginary companions and paracosms • Real  Imaginary • Violations of real-world constraints • Honoring of real-world constraints

  3. Stories • Biography • Realistic fiction • Non-realistic fiction • Fantasy

  4. What makes a story fantastical? • Events in the story are fantastical • Main character is fantastical • Main character is real (but supporting characters are fantastical) • Asymmetry: • Real characters can only participate in real events. • Fantastical characters participate in both real and fantastical events. • But realistic characters can participate in fantastical events (Harry Potter).

  5. Friedman & Van de Vondervoort • Parallels with pretense – role of justification • Violation of social norms • Other inferences? • Resistance • Cultural fantasy figures • MCI • What develops?

  6. Sobel and Weisberg • Role played by knowledge about the fictional world • What develops?

  7. Beck and Sunda • When do children need to generate reality? • How does this process work? • Is it constrained by knowledge?

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