An explorer in a cardboard land
Emotion, Memory, and the Embodied Experience of Doing Jigsaw Puzzles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Cora Garcia (0000-0003-1052-5364, Bentley University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-180 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Play (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-4937 • E-ISSN: 2159-4953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21594937.2016.1203916 |
| OpenAlex | W2482642668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how playing a game or engaging in a leisure activity provides the participant with an experience which integrates physical, mental, and emotional elements. I use an autoethnographic approach to study the process of completing jigsaw puzzles. The main focal point of the paper is the connection between engagement in a physical activity (completing a puzzle) and how the mind works and where it goes during the performance of that activity. The goal of the paper is to illustrate the connections between action and thought, and to show how one of the benefits, pleasures or rewards of engagement in leisure activities is the way these activities facilitate the wandering of our minds toward productive thoughts, images, insights, memories, and emotions. These findings may aid our understanding of the nature and appeal of playing games or participating in various types of leisure activities
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Autoethnography · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Jigsaw · Recreation · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Psychology · Social Psychology
Amateurs
Investigating subjectivity
Creating Autoethnographies
The Role of Play in Human Development
Gamification and multigamification in the workplace
Enduring leisure involvement
Feeling at home
Women, climbing and serious leisure
The Internet as a scientific tool for studying leisure activities
How do individuals ‘switch‐off’ from work during leisure? A qualitative description of the unwinding process in high and low ruminators
Ways of Experiencing Leisure
The Emergent Working Society of Leisure
Obligation as an Aspect of Leisure Experience
Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory
Daydreaming and other forms of improvisational play
Living in a broken world
Ability to be active
Finding and tracking the flow in creative artistry - the path to creative nirvana
Context and detail in studies of the witnessable social order
Playing With the Autoethnographical
Suspect of Smiles
Fear of Falling
Psychoanalytic-Autoethnography
Signals and Signs
Analytic Autoethnography
On auto-ethnography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |