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role playing  

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  • Role playing is a technique commonly used by researchers studying interpersonal behavior in which researchers assign research participants to particular roles and instruct those participants to act as if a set of conditions were true. The use of role taking has a long history in social science research and was used in some of the early classic social psychological experiments by Kurt Lewin (1939/1997), Stanley Milgram (1963), and Phillip Zimbardo (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods; Role Playing]

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