Role-enactment and deception methodologies? Alternative paradigms?

Forward, John; Canter, Rachelle J.; Kirsch, Ned L.

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.31.8.595

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“…Although we believe-that natural interaction is preferable to simulated interaction when researchers wish to make claims concerning communicative behaviors, ethical concerns and problems of access to naturally occurring social confrontations has led us to rely upon role-playing at this point in the research program. Further, role-playing has frequently been cited as a viable methodology and alternative to experimental techniques involving deception (e.g., Forward, Canter, & Kirsch, 1976;Geller, 1978). There is growing support for the belief that the role-play can account for the complexity of simultaneous behaviors found in naturalistic interaction (Raush, Barry, Hertel, & Swain, 1974;Yardley, 1982).…”

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The social confrontation episode

Newell

Stutman

1988

Communication Monographs

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The social confrontation episode

Newell

Stutman

1988

Communication Monographs

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“…These five situations formed one factor in the between-group analyses reported in this study, with approximately 1,100 subjects assigned randomly to each situation. The usefulness of such a role-playing methodology has been convincingly argued (Cooper, 1976;Forward, Canter, & Kirsch, 1976), especially in situations such as the present one, where the research emphasis is on cognitions and attitudes rather than on overt behavior (Miller, 1972).…”

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I Can Resist Anything But Temptation: Adolescent Expectations for Smoking Cigarettes¹

Covington¹,

Omelich²

1988

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Conformity to group pressure is widely considered a prime factor in experimentation with cigarettes. An alternative assumption is that the temptation to smoke arises out of the belief that cigarettes are instrumental in enhancing a sense of maturity, affiliation, and a reputation for autonomy. The present research assessed the relative saliency for both motive fulfillment and social pressure hypotheses in temptation dynamics and traced the causal influence of these factors on future expectations to smoke. Some 5,600 sixth, eighth and tenth graders rated the temptation value of four situations for smoking, varied along two dimensions: the composition of the group and the presence or absence of reasons that might minimize personal responsibility for smoking. Solitary smoking was a fifth situation. Between‐group analyses confirmed that smoking history of the individual (e.g., nonsmokers), grade level, and type of tempting situation all exerted a significant impact on perceived peer pressure, on temptation level, and on behavioral expectancy to smoke. However, beliefs about the instrumentality of cigarettes for reducing tension and enhancing a reputation for maturity and autonomy overshadowed peer pressure as causal agents for both temptation level and expectations. Moreover, instrumental beliefs were differentially salient in this temptation/expectancy dynamic, depending on the individual's smoking history. Finally, the causal saliency of instrumental beliefs differed, depending on whether temptation arose in solitary or group situations. The implications of these findings for adolescent smoking prevention and cessation strategies were considered.

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“…In particular, scholars debated whether role‐plays could replace traditional experimental methods in psychology. Those in favor of the use of role‐play argued that while traditional methodologies were based on deceiving the participants, role‐play techniques were more humanistic and person‐centered (Forward et al ; Freedman ; Miller ; Yardley ).…”

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Role‐Play and “As If” Self in Everyday Life

Shoshana¹

2013

Ethos

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In this article, I examine the use of role‐play strategy and its outcomes in field experiment conditions in the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. Data derive from two major sources: governmental protocols related to the organizational production of a role‐play technique and interviews with graduates of the experimental school years after their role‐playing experience. Analysis of governmental protocols shows the intentional organizational usage of the term gifted within the school population is based on a bureaucratic simulation of giftedness, which in turn creates a distinction between natural giftedness and institutional giftedness. In‐depth interviews with graduates of the school indicate that they experience their giftedness as artificial (“as if” giftedness). They describe ethnic conversion and distinction between two types of self (before and after the boarding school). My concluding discussion identifies a particular kind of reflexivity (the presence of absence) in the boarding school graduates’ concepts of self. In turn, this reflexivity indicates phenomenological consequences latent in role‐play simulations in field experiment conditions. The findings of this article enable me to address a pertinent issue of psychological anthropology not sufficiently discussed in the literature: the manner in which individuals who experience (re)construction of the self maintain their selfhood many years after the (re)construction.

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Role-enactment and deception methodologies? Alternative paradigms?

Cited by 62 publications

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