Two Types of Role Playing: Threats to Internal and External Validity.

Spencer, C. D.

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Two Types of Role Playing: Threats to Internal and External Validity

Spencer, C. D.

American Psychologist, 33, 3, 265-8, Mar 78

Two frequently employed types of role playing, empirical and hypothetical, are defined and discussed with respect to the type of threat each poses to valid inference when used as substitutes for in vivo experimentation. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Experimental Psychology, Research, Role Playing, Validity

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