{"product_id":"9780472056712-incarceration-games","title":"Incarceration Games","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you want to play a game?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncarceration Games\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Role-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 “stage production era” in American social psychology. It then examines the subsequent mutation of the Stanford experiment, in particular, into cultural myth—exploring the ways in which these distorted understandings have impacted on everything from reality TV formats to the “enhanced interrogation” of real-world terror suspects. \u003ci\u003eIncarceration Games\u003c\/i\u003e asks readers to reconsider what they thought they knew about this tangled history, and to look at it again from the role-player’s perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41679641968737,"sku":"9780472056712","price":39.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31998199.jpg?v=1736335429","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472056712-incarceration-games","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}