Role Play In Starpower

Starpower has illustrated several social psychological principles which were not only present during the game, but are also highly relevant within our contemporary society. These principles through empirical research are the concepts of perception and attribution processes, role playing and simulation. It is with these concepts that allow social and cognitive psychologists to examine why we behave and think the way we think about the social world. How do we interpret and analyse the information we encounter? Are the truth(s) we discover reliable, or are we all biased and influenced by our own feelings and pre-existing knowledge. Are our values and attitudes consistent or are they constantly changing depending on the social role?
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For example, the recent news article from Sydney Morning Herald, written by Nixon (2007) depicted how females who deviates from traditional feminine roles and merge with traditional male roles or traits, are more likely to be sexually harassed by society, especially at work. In terms of role playing and simulation, females and males can be seen as actors with different roles in society. These separate roles can be perceived via attribution and perception theories, such as schemas, which efficiently encode and organises the male and female properties into categories or traditional male or female traits, which are influenced by our pre-existing knowledge. Once either one of us step into each others roles, (e.g. females consuming male roles at work), we feel uneasy about it due to perseverance effect on our schemas, so negative remarks will be made internally towards the females (actor) from society (observer), committing the actor-observer or fundamental attribution…show more content…
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