Incarceration Games : A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance

Name: Incarceration Games : A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance
Brand: The University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press

Do you want to play a game?Incarceration Games reexamines the complex history and troubled legacy of improvised, interactive role-playing experiments. With particular attention to the notorious Stanford prison study, the author draws on extensive archival research and original interviews with many of those involved, to refocus attention on the in-game choices of the role-players themselves.\nRole-playing as we understand it today was initially developed in the 1930s as a therapeutic practice within the New York state penal system. This book excavates that history and traces the subsequent adoption of these methods for lab experimentation, during the postwar \u201Cstage production era\u201D in American social psychology. It then examines the subsequent mutation of the Stanford experiment, in\n\nIncarceration Games\nA History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tr;