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Thalia R. Goldstein, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Applied Developmental Psychology program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Her work focuses on children’s engagement in pretend play, theatre, drama, and other imaginative activities, and how such activities intersect with children\u2019s developing social and emotional skills, particularly theory of mind, empathy, and emotional control and regulation. She directs the\u00a0Play, Learning, Arts, and Youth (PLAY) lab<\/u><\/a>,\u00a0which conducts research that looks at the effects of engaging in pretend play and theatre on children’s social-emotional skills, and at how children understand and learn social information in fictional worlds. She is also the co-director of the National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab, the\u00a0Mason Arts Research Center (<\/u>MasonARC<\/u>)<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and the co-editor of the journal\u00a0Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts<\/i>. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and featured on CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Her first book,\u00a0Why Theatre Education Matters: Understanding the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits<\/i>\u00a0will be published by Teacher’s College Press in July 2024.<\/p>\n Publications (selection):<\/strong><\/p>\n >> Deutsche Version<\/a><\/p>\n Thalia R. Goldstein, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Applied Developmental Psychology program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Her work focuses on children’s engagement in pretend play, theatre, drama, and other imaginative activities, and how such activities intersect with children\u2019s developing social and emotional skills, particularly theory of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-speakers","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfictionenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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