Research on Roleplaying

Steve Discont can found on twitter at @bearlynormal, and Porter Green at @DagmarRugosa.

Our guest Ben Aldred can be found at @sleepingscholar. You can find a blog of Ben’s thoughts on gaming here.

You can go to the following URLs or research articles to learn about some of the topics discussed in this episode:

Ben Aldred’s graduate thesis on the folkloric study of roleplaying

Ben Aldred’s study of the use of humor at the gaming table

“Tuskegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study” by Elizabeth Nix at History.com

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Human Research Protections

“Peer Review” by the American Psychological Association