Meaning of role playing | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of roleplaying.

alt-of, dated, uncountable

Examples

“Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing.”

““It’s role playing. We’ve done this a lot.” / She gave him a look⟳ that hopefully told him she questioned his sanity. “Crazy role playing.” / “Really?” He arched a brow and stepped between her legs. “Crazier than me being the dungeon master? Crazier than naughty virgin school girl, French maid—which I really, really liked—or my absolute favorite, Master and slave?””

“As for the MMORPG genre, which, with its elements of co-operation and human interaction, gets closest to the spirit of role playing as Gygax envisioned it, the influence⟳ of D&D is just as profound, from Ultima Online, all the way through to Everquest^([sic]) and of course, Dungeons and Dragons Online.”

“Originally developed for dramatic purposes, rôle playing has been adapted for educational and therapeutic purposes (e.g., psychodrama and sociodrama), for diagnostic purposes (i.e., to generate⟳ hypotheses about a subject’s personality from the observation of his behavior in a rôle playing situation), and for experimental purposes (7).”

“Janis and King (3) summarize⟳ the scant literature in this area and report⟳ an investigation in which rôle playing was carried out under laboratory conditions. They find⟳ support⟳ for “the hypothesis that overt verbalization induced by rôle playing tends to augment the effectiveness of a persuasive communication” (p. 218).”

“For example: the plant⟳ manager, the personnel director, and the superintendent may employ⟳ rôle playing in preparing for a union negotiation. While the other two remain⟳ in their actual positions, each in sequence may impersonate what he thinks the significant individuals across the bargaining table may say⟳ or do, […]”

“Rôle playing helps us do what we should always try⟳ to do anyway—attempt⟳ to put⟳ ourselves in the other person’s place⟳ and see⟳ things from his point⟳ of view⟳.”

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