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Social play is more than a Pavlovian romp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Marc Bekoff and
Colin Allen
Marc Bekoff
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334 marc.bekoff@colorado.edu
Colin Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77894 colin-allen@tanu.edu snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
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Abstract

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Some aspects of play may be explained by Pavlovian learning processes, but others are not so easily handled. Especially when there is a chance that specific actions can be misinterpreted; animals alter their behavior to reduce the likelihood that this will occur. The flexibility and fine-tuning of play make it an ideal candidate for comparative and evolutionary cognitive studies.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000, pp. 250 - 251
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press