Caillois divides play into four categories: agon (competition), alea (chance), mimicry (simulation), and ilinx (vertigo).
In the world of bacteria and viruses, a strategy called molecular mimicry is common.
Scientists found that orang-utans had a sense of empathy and mimicry which forms an essential part of laughter.
For those who feel the urge to launch into some mimicry, context and intent is key, says Ruttledge.
That motto could be the mantra for China's massive movement in architectural mimicry.
He described Kutcher's performance as "carefully judged, " but said "the illusion never fully seizes hold" despite "an impressive attempt at vocal mimicry".
While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.
It isn't mimicry, or the phenomenal transformation of Daniel Day-Lewis into Lincoln, but a more modest, impressionistic approach that's enjoyable on its own terms.
Turkle seems to say that these natural actions find a kind of riskless mimicry in out habits of giving human qualities to objects like robots.
Mr. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with a gift for mimicry, a host of eccentric personalities and a reservoir of creative energy.
He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun.
Inside the newsroom, her schoolteacherlike way of elongating words and drawing out the last word of each sentence is a subject of endless conversation and expert mimicry.
The study concluded that mimicry had not only increased good will toward the researcher (in a matter of minutes), but also prompted an increased social orientation in general.
He is, at heart, a curmudgeon, but a delightful one, with a vast range of knowledge, a wicked sense of humor and a talent for storytelling and mimicry.
Mimicry works because predators learn that the models are unpleasant.
There are four: influence, mimicry, activity, and consistency.
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However, the scenarios included multiple rounds of negotiation, so there was room for give-and-take: in a third experiment, with negotiation focused on a single issue, mimicry failed to have its desired effect.
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The tightrope walker executes a variety of acrobatic feats along with jokes, mimicry, songs and dance, while a clown engages the tightrope walker in humorous banter and musicians play to accompany the entertainment.
And without this automatic mimicry, we greatly reduce our ability to recreate the observed emotion within ourselves which is the basis of our capacity to emotionally connect and to empathize with one another.
Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.
Tanned little boys darted past me on bicycles, wearing mesh baseball caps propped high on their heads, in mimicry of the fathers and uncles who crowded around workbenches, bent over vehicles, their belts buckled off center to avoid scratching the paint.
While it's heartening to see taxpayer-funded grants shot down a rat hole of sententious research that overly complicates simple, self-evident truths, what's gone ignored is a simple fact known for eons to anyone who's studied the mimicry abilities of primates and infants.
Two common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori, and also the influenza-A virus, are particularly adept at playing the evasive game of molecular mimicry, and the team is now looking at possible connections between different gut bacteria and autoantibodies against melanocortins to see if they can pin down which, if any, of these bugs might be responsible.
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