April 8, 1999 - Adults who remember their own childhood pretend friends will be interested in the chapter on the relationship between imaginary companions in childhood and adult forms of fantasy. Taylor also addresses practical concerns, providing many useful suggestions for parents.

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Marjorie Taylor is Professor Emerit of Psychology, University of Oregon. Her research is on the development of imagination and creativity, including studies of young children who invent pretend friends, older children who create imaginary worlds and adult fiction writers who develop relationships with the characters in their novels. Taylor is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination (2013), author of Imagination Companions and the Children Who Create Them (1999), and co-author (with Naomi Aguiar) of Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them (2024), an expanded 2nd edition of her 1999 book.

In this updated and greatly expanded ... early studies. Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them provides rich descriptions of imaginary friends and how they function in the lives of both children and adults....

March 1, 2017 - Taylor, M. (1999). Imaginary companions and the children who create them. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

In the past a child with an imaginary companion might have been considered peculiar, shy, or even troubled, but according to Taylor the reality is much more positive--and interesting. Not only are imaginary companions surprisingly common, the children who have them tend to be less shy than other children...

Marjorie Taylor · Publication date · 1999 · Topics · Imagination in children, Play · Publisher · Oxford University Press · Collection · internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled · Contributor · Internet Archive · Language · English · Item Size · 388.9M ·

How real is the imaginary? In M. Banaji & S.A. Gelman (Eds.) Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us (pp. 113-116). New York: Oxford University Press. Taylor, M. (1999). Imaginary companions and the children who create them.

ISBN: 9780195077049 - First Edition. - Hardcover - Oxford University Press, New York - 1999 - Condition: Fine - Fine - FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. An informed look at the phenomenon of 'pretend friends' that children often make reference to, the normality or abnormality of this depending upon specific circumstances, the developmental psychology and health issues involved, what parents can and should or should not do in response to this, much more.

Taylor M. Imaginary companions and the children who create them. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1999.

Marjorie Taylor is Professor Emerit of Psychology, University of Oregon. Her research is on the development of imagination and creativity, including studies of young children who invent pretend friends, older children who create imaginary worlds and adult fiction writers who develop relationships with the characters in their novels. Taylor is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination (2013), author of Imagination Companions and the Children Who Create Them (1999), and co-author (with Naomi Aguiar) of Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them (2024), an expanded 2nd edition of her 1999 book.

March 1, 2000 - Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. By M. Taylor. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. pp. 215. £18.99 (hb). - Volume 41 Issue 3

Taylor, M. (1999) Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. Oxford University Press, New York.

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They also are better able to focus their attention and to see things from another person's perspective. In addition to describing imaginary companions and the reasons children create them, Taylor discusses other aspects of children's fantasy lives, such as their belief in Santa, their dreams, and their uncertainty about the reality of TV characters.

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Description: New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. An informed look at the phenomenon of 'pretend friends' that children often make reference to, the normality or abnormality of this depending upon specific circumstances, the developmental psychology and health issues involved, what parents can and should or should not do in response…