Role playing occurs where an individual plays at or pretends to occupy the role of another. The concept of role playing is useful for understanding the socialization of children and in particular that stage during which they play at being mothers, fathers, doctors, or truck drivers. It is during this role playing that they master the ability to engage in reflexive role-taking and thus to develop their own sense of self.
Role playing can be done online in the form of group story creation, utilizing public forums, private message boards, mailing lists, chatrooms, and instant-messaging chat clients to build worlds and characters. Role-playing is an important part of a child's psychological development. Role playing resulted in behavioral change. Role Theory includes Role Strain, Role Playing, Role Distancing, Role-Taking, Role Convergence.
The effects of role playing on prosocial behavior in preschool children - Hamazaki T.
The purpose was to examine the effects of two types of role-playing experience on prosocial behavior in preschool children.
In the Empathy role-playing, each pair of children enacted alternately a victim and an eyewitness using a glove puppet, in which the emphasis was only on empathizing with the victim.
In the Empathy and Helping role-playing, they enacted alternately a victim and a helper, in which the emphasis was on empathizing and helping a victim.
In the Control role-playing, they played roles alternately of a customer and a salesman in a grocery store. All children were assessed as for helping and sharing behaviors for a real victim before and after the role playing session.
Kindness in the Kindergarten: The Relative Influence of Role Playing and Prosocial Television in Facilitating Altruism - Inge M. Ahammer, John P. Murray, Macquarie University.
It was assumed that role taking skills would be a necessary and or sufficient condition for altruistic behavior. Thus, training programs centering on cognitive perceptual and affective role taking respectively were compared to programs in which altruistic behavior was either watched on TV or role played by the children. Children watching 'neutral' TV episodes, or experiencing a regular preschool program, served as controls.
Altruism was significantly enhanced in the three role playing programs, whereas prosocial TV viewing, while less effective than the role play conditions was marginally superior to neutral TV viewing. Cognitive, perceptual role taking was clearly implicated in the enactment of altruistic behavior while the role of affective role taking was less consistent.
Role Playing As a Group Intervention - Rebecca J. Cabral. Role playing is an effective intervention technique that has been broadly adapted for use in academic research and applied settings. A classification scheme for organizing these diverse role-playing uses, in terms of intraindividual and intact group change, is presented. Furthermore, it is suggested that research and implementation of role playing would be best served by an interactional perspective.
Role Playing to Assess Social Competence - Ecological Validity Considerations - J. Regis Mcnamara, Craig A. Blumer. Role playing is increasingly being used as a method by which to assess social competence. Role playing has demonstrated its usefulness at reflecting differences between treatment and control groups in studies concerned with the modification of social competence and those attempting to differentiate levels of social competence in known groups. The ability of role plays to accurately represent more naturalistically occurring social behavior is less well established, however. Current evidence suggests that there is only modest correspondence between behavior in role play and naturalistic settings.
ROLE-TAKING AND ROLE-PLAYING IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION - ROBERT L. KELLEY, W.J. OSBORNE and CLYDE HENDRICK. This paper clarifies the concept of role-taking and distinguishes role-taking from related constructs with which it has been confused. It is shown, however, that clarification of role-taking requires serious consideration of the related concept of role-playing.
Use of Cigarettes and Alcohol by Preschoolers While Role-playing as Adults "Honey, Have Some Smokes" - Madeline A. Dalton; Amy M. Bernhardt; Jennifer J. Gibson; James D. Sargent; Michael L. Beach; Anna M. Adachi-Mejia; Linda T. Titus-Ernstoff; Todd F. Heatherton. As part of the role playing, each child selected items from a miniature grocery store stocked with 73 different products, including beer, wine, and cigarettes, for an evening with friends. One hundred twenty children, 2 to 6 years old, participated individually in the role-playing.
Live Action Role-Playing Games - Control, Communication, Storytelling, and
MMORPG Similarities - Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund,
Manolya Kavakli. Live action role-playing games share a range of characteristics with massively
multi-player online games. Because these games have existed for more than 20
years, players of these games have a substantial amount of experience in handling issues
pertinent to massively multi-player online games. Survey and review of live action role-playing games, whose participant
count can be in the thousands, reveal that features such as size, theme, game
master-to-player ratio, and others interact to form complex systems that require several
different groups of control tools to manage.
Computer-Based Role-Playing for Interpersonal Skills Training,
Geralien A. Holsbrink-Engels. This study examines the design and evaluation of computer-based role-playing. For novices,
a conventional role-play is a very complex learning situation. Computer-based role-playing
is designed to simplify role-playing so that students can more effectively develop
interpersonal skills. It is a gradual lead-in to, not a replacement of, conventional
role-playing. An experiment is reported in which 41 students participated. The students
were randomly distributed over two groups. Two instructional programs were compared, one
with and one without computer-based role-playing. One major finding is that computer-based
role-playing enhances interpersonal skills development.
Voice and text: role playing with computers - S Yager, Department of
English, Iowa State University
One way to encourage students to take part is literally to give them a part, a role to
take on in the classroom. Over the past few semesters, I have turned to computers to do
this, using the InterChange function of Daedalus, a networked synchronous communications
program, for role playing exercises in medieval literature classes. In these classes, I
have invited my students to use role playing in order to explore the identities of
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims. This project has persuaded me that synchronous
communications in general, and on-line role playing in particular, can be a vital part of
the medieval studies classroom.
The work of George Herbert Mead role-taking behavior is an intervening variable affecting human communication.