The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination

Part One: Introduction; 1. Transcending Time, Place, and Circumstance: An Introduction to This Volume; Marjorie Taylor; 2. Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children; Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer; Part Two: Fantasy-Reality Distinctions; 3. Fairy Tales, History, and Religion; Paul L. Harris; 4. Magical Thinking; Karl S. Rosengren and Jason French; 5. Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths; Jacqueline D. Woolley and Chelsea A. Cornelius; 6. Distinguishing Imagination From Reality; Deena Skolnick Weisberg; 7. Children's Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination; Mary Ann Foley; 8. Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood; Nathalie Carrick, Elizabeth Rush, and Jodi A. Quas; 9. Child witnesses and imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity; Thomas D. Lyon; 10. Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education; Angeline S. Lillard; Part Three: Pretend Play and Narrative; 11. Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination; Stephanie M. Carlson and Rachel E. White; 12. The Distinction between Role Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play; Alison B. Shawber-Sachet and Candice M. Mottweiler; 13. How Do Children Represent Pretense?; Ori Friedman; 14. Culture, Narrative, and Imagination; Elaine Reese; 15. Flux and Flow in Children's Narratives; Susan Engel; 16. Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity; Suzanne Gaskins; Part Four: Imagining the Self and Other; 17. Imaginary Relationships; Tracy R. Gleason; 18. Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism is Hair Triggered but not Hare Brained; Adam Waytz, Nadav Klein, and Nicholas Epley; 19. Imagination and the Self; Chris Moore and John Barresi; Part Five: Mental Time Travel, Counterfactual Thinking, and Causality; 20. Future Thinking in Young Children; Cristina M. Atance and Jennifer L. Metcalf; 21. Counterfactuals and Reality; Sarah R. Beck and Kevin J. Riggs; 22. Causality and Imagination; Caren M. Walker and Alison

Marjorie Taylor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon