Dolls beat screens for building children's social skills, study finds

What's the point of play? Is it simply a way to keep children occupied, or something more? For some, it's about learning ...
insider.si.edu

Dolls studies : the many meanings of girls' toys and play / edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Jennifer Dawn Whitney

Children's books, dolls, and the performance of race; or, the possibility of children's literature / Robin Bernstein -- Dolling up history: fictions of Jewish American girlhood / Lisa Marcus -- Dolls ...
Psychology Today

Did the Bobo Doll Studies Teach Us About Aggression?

Among the classic tales we tell psychology students every semester is that of the fabled Bobo doll. In the typical story, young children are brought to a psychology laboratory. There, they watch adult ...
Business Wire

New Study Shows That Playing With Dolls Allows Children to Develop Empathy and Social Processing Skills

Barbie® and neuroscientists from Cardiff University have collaborated on a new study which for the first time uses neuroimaging as evidence to explore the effects of doll play Evidence shows that doll ...
Daily Mail

Should YOU buy your child a Barbie? As Greta Gerwig's new movie hits cinemas, studies reveal how dolls can improve empathy – but can also increase the risk of eating disorders

Greta Gerwig's hotly-anticipated Barbie movie has finally hit the big screen – and is set to supercharge the cinema industry left decimated by Covid. 'Barbie' – which is competing with Christopher ...