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Harry Potter movies make kids MORE creative, say researchers
Watching Harry Potter films could make young children more creative, claims a study.
Carried out by Lancaster University, it’s the first attempt to study whether there are any educational benefits in exposing children to magical content like witches and wizards, Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy.
The study examined if there was a link between magical thinking and creativity in preschool children – and it found that there was.
Wand-erful: Harry Potter movies makes kids more creative, say researchers
The small-scale study involved 52 four to six-year-old children. The youngsters were split into two groups and shown two 15-minute clips from Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.
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The findings show that after watching the clips, the group who watched the magical scenes in general scored ‘significantly better’ in all three areas than their peers in the other group.
Researchers Dr Eugene Subbotsky, Claire Hysted and Nicola Jones from the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University concluded that: ‘Magical thinking enables children to create fantastic imaginary worlds, and in this way enhances children’s capacity to view the world and act upon it from multiple perspectives.
‘The results suggested that books and videos about magic might serve to expand children’s imagination and help them to think more creatively.’
Magical thinking involves believing in supernatural events like animals speaking human languages, or a witch flying on a broomstick.
This involves the ability to construct an alternative world and research has shown that most four to six-year-olds think magically in everyday life.
Some of the scenes include animals talking and witches and wizards performing spells and using wands, while other scenes featured the same characters but without any magical content.
The children were then tested for creativity which included being asked to pretend they were a rabbit or driving a car. They were also asked to think of different ways of putting plastic cups in a bin and for alternative uses for the cup.
The children who had watched the magical scenes performed significantly better on the creativity tests.
The researchers concluded that rather than just being used for entertainment, ‘magical thinking can be viewed as an additional source of development of imagination and divergent thinking in children.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2118824/Harry-Potter-movies-make-kids-creative-say-researchers.html#ixzz1qCLJOpw6
Carried out by Lancaster University, it’s the first attempt to study whether there are any educational benefits in exposing children to magical content like witches and wizards, Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy.
The study examined if there was a link between magical thinking and creativity in preschool children – and it found that there was.
Wand-erful: Harry Potter movies makes kids more creative, say researchers
The small-scale study involved 52 four to six-year-old children. The youngsters were split into two groups and shown two 15-minute clips from Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.
More...
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The findings show that after watching the clips, the group who watched the magical scenes in general scored ‘significantly better’ in all three areas than their peers in the other group.
Researchers Dr Eugene Subbotsky, Claire Hysted and Nicola Jones from the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University concluded that: ‘Magical thinking enables children to create fantastic imaginary worlds, and in this way enhances children’s capacity to view the world and act upon it from multiple perspectives.
‘The results suggested that books and videos about magic might serve to expand children’s imagination and help them to think more creatively.’
Magical thinking involves believing in supernatural events like animals speaking human languages, or a witch flying on a broomstick.
This involves the ability to construct an alternative world and research has shown that most four to six-year-olds think magically in everyday life.
Some of the scenes include animals talking and witches and wizards performing spells and using wands, while other scenes featured the same characters but without any magical content.
The children were then tested for creativity which included being asked to pretend they were a rabbit or driving a car. They were also asked to think of different ways of putting plastic cups in a bin and for alternative uses for the cup.
The children who had watched the magical scenes performed significantly better on the creativity tests.
The researchers concluded that rather than just being used for entertainment, ‘magical thinking can be viewed as an additional source of development of imagination and divergent thinking in children.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2118824/Harry-Potter-movies-make-kids-creative-say-researchers.html#ixzz1qCLJOpw6
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I actually decided to follow and make a career in the filmmaking field after watching a movie too.
Particularly, with your amazing artistic skills, I think you would be an amazing art director or set producer, Ry
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Anyway, I love this stat!
Mysterious thing time.
So what film inspired you?
My inspirations were always the Harry Potter movies. As each came out, my love for movies grew bigger. I started having these ideas for "new Harry Potter adventures" and I still have a little notebook where I wrote down each one of them, not just my Harry Potter ones, but also my "original" ones. I used to organize them in scenes as in a DVD scene selection, the titles were so stupid LMAO
Me too, I wish I was born in the USA
I'm thinking about going to film school but I'm not sure if here in Brazil they're really that great. I'm thinking on studying Publicity, then I'll study at Lee Strasberg in New York. I figured that acting is the easiest way to get in the market.
I love acting! One of favorite subjects in university was Casting Direction. It was great. I feel like trying acting someday, but right now I'm focusing in post-production, visual effects and animation. Let's see how it goes
So yeah, I'm studying something else just so that if I can't get on the business, I still have an alternative, that happily has a lot to do with filmmaking.
But I'm pretty sure you will eventually find something, Rick! I wish you the best of luck, I hope you really make it into movies!
I'm sure you'll make a wise decision. Having an alternative is great. Have you considered studying Audiovisual? It's a great course that gather basically all of the kinds of Social Communication courses (Radio, TV, Filmmaking, Publicity, Photography). I wished I had studied Audiovisual, because I would be able to receive the DRT of Filmmaking, Television and Radio. Unfortunately, studying Filmmaking, I was able to receive the DRT of my field and by that, I can't work in any TV station, can you believe that
Audiovisual is also a good one, and the UNB course is said to be the best of the country. I still have a year and a half to decide anyway
I wish you the best of luck! I'm sure you'll do amazing, whatever you study man!
I hope we get to meet when we both go all Hollywood Oscar directors! :P
Mysterious thing time.
What does it really mean to be a fan? We want to know what you think!
Please complete this short survey and help to construct a new psychometric measure that will assess fan identity specifically as it relates to media fandom. Thank you!
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*This research study is being conducted by researchers at the University of South Florida.
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Second (@RyGuy), by no means would we want you to feel forced to take the survey or would we want you to view yourself as a lab rat. But, isn't everyone a unique case to some extent? Aren't all HP fans
...Aren't all HP fans special in their own way? lol
If anyone else has interest in taking the survey, I could use the help. I need 25 more people to take it still. Thanks in advance!
~Samantha
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Mysterious thing time.
Thank you to everyone who helped me out! The survey has now been closed, and, thanks to you all, Part 2 of my thesis is finally complete!
~Samantha
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