The Power of Play
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August 23, 2019
52m
Overview
Lizards do it. Even fish do it. The animal world is showing us why play is a serious matter. Through a combination of ongoing experiments, reconstructed experiments and guided observation, 'The Power of Play' reveals surprising truths about play in the natural world. Scientists from Europe, the United States and Canada, many of them pioneers in the field, offer convincing evidence that play is not to be taken lightly. In fact, it has the power to make animals and humans smarter, healthier and more likely to survive.
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In United States
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Cast
Stuart Brown
Self (Play Researcher)Mariana Brussoni
Self (Developmental Psychologist)Gordon Burghardt
Self (Reptile Researcher)Matthew Cooper
Self (Neuroscientist)Geoff D'Eon
Narrator (voice)Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter
Self (Child Psychologist)Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Self (Developmental Psychologist)Kathryn Kegel
Self (Seattle Aquarium)Elisabetta Palagi
Self (Primate Researcher)Sergio Pellis
Self (Neuroscientist)Jonathan Pruitt
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