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You can probably remember your favorite toy when you were a child. Most often this is the one you couldn’t leave the house without and had pride of place on your bed. You probably had a favorite type of toy as well, maybe a dolls house, toy cars or maybe just a ball and a cup. New findings from the London institute of Psychology have shown that they toys we play with when we are younger have a massive impact on us as adults. Below we examine some of the more interesting points the research highlighted.

1. Those children who were encouraged to play with educational toys did not become more intelligent, but were more analytical in their approach to problems in later life. The research showed that learning toys promoted patience and taught people to break down a problem into its simplest parts in order to overcome tasks

2. People who often played with dolls or toys that toys that had human qualities, developed better communication and interaction skills in later life. Children increase their interaction level with toys the more they appear to be human research has shown, which means they are more likely to talk and share their emotions with dolls than most other toys.

3. Probably the most controversial of the research’s findings was that the adults who accrued the greatest wealth and had most confidence, where those who had access to toys at all times when they were growing up. This means if children played with bath toys, took toys out and about with them and had access to toys at friends houses etc, they became more successful in later life.

Whilst this research is very interesting, it is worth bearing in mind that it is not always easy to tell where the cause and effect lies. What this means for example is does the child who plays with the doll become more interactive, or did they pick the doll because they favoured interaction in the first place? The answer is probably a combination of the two, but the report is still very interesting.

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Tags: behaviour, growing, learning, psychology, toys

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