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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social · Jul 28

Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences co-authored by @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social @joelbillieux.bsky.social et al.
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Cyberpsychology

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · Jun 30

🔟 Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks: Assessing self-discrepancy theory against a broader range of character and play experiences

Snodgrass, Sagstetter, Branstrator, Giardina, Lacy, Bollinger-Deters, Callendar, Zhao, Dengah II, & Billieux

doi.org/10.5817/CP20...

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Cyberpsychology Journal @cyberpsy.bsky.social · Jun 30

🌞 New issue is here! 🌞

Vol. 19, No. 3 features 2 new validated measures, 3 longitudinal studies on social media use, and much more - see 🧵👇

📚 Cool off with a smart summer read: cyberpsychology.eu/issue/view/2...
All #OpenAccess 🔓

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped bring this issue to life! 🙌

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · May 12

📚📚📚 New Book Review! 📚📚📚

Lars de Wildt @larsdewildt.bsky.social reviews //The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games// by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social 2023 @ucpress.bsky.social #AnthroSky

Find it here in AE 52.2 ⤵️
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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Apr 12

New review of my book, The Avatar Faculty (Univ. of Calif Press, 2023)
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the article title to read more.

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Trait Absorption Relates to Experiences of Spirit Communication

Download Citation | Trait Absorption Relates to Experiences of Spirit Communication | Absorption can be defined as the propensity to be focused on or become absorbed in internal or external events, ma...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Ill Health and Grief Fuel Gaming, while Lethargy Slows It: Playtime–Wellbeing Confounds from the Player Perspective

Time spent playing video games (playtime) is not strongly correlated with wellbeing. However, quantitative studies often overlook “third variables” that thereforethe relationship between gaming and we...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Feb 3

We're also presenting our current research at the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) meetings April 3-6, 2025 in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM

"Role-Playing Games, Self-Concept, and Well-Being: Rejuvenating a Psychological Anthropology of Play"

Schedule here: spa.americananthro.org/meetings/

Meetings – SPA

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Feb 3

My team is presenting at the upcoming SfAA meetings in Portland, March 25-29 @appliedanthro.bsky.social

"Role-Playing Games, Self-Concept, and Well-Being: Developing Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Games for Good"

More info and program details here: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

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Amber Wutich @awutich.bsky.social · Jan 29

Announcing the launch of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program's International Curriculum & Community of Practice (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵

This represents 5 years of work led by our global team, building on our proud 50 year history of NSF-funded methods programs in anthropology

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Jan 5

(open access dissertation)

Theatre as Therapy for Impression Management Distress in the Contemporary United States: A Dramaturgical Model and Toolkit for Everyday Coping

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Theatre as Therapy for Impression Management Distress in the Contemporary United States: A Dramaturgical Model and Toolkit for Everyday Coping

This study uses a combination of qualitative and ethnographic methods to interrogate the phenomenon of “identity distress,” redefined here as a coping process initiated by a threat signal during socia...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Jan 5

(open access on live-action role-playing or "LARP")

Larp Design : Creating Role-Play Experiences

trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...

Larp Design : Creating Role-Play Experiences - Trepo

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Jan 5

(open access)
Gaming the Stage
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
press.umich.edu/Books/G/Gami...

Gaming the Stage

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In t...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 31

‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)
doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 31

Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps
doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps - Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, H. Russell Bernard, 2024

There has been a recent explosion of articles on minimum sample sizes needed for analyzing qualitative data. The purpose of this integrated review is to examine...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 31

Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture
doi.org/10.1177/1555...

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 31

Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing

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Play in Cognitive Development: From Rational Constructivism to Predictive Processing

Children's play is often viewed as a form of experimentation that helps them refine their understanding of the world. While rational constructivism emphasizes this learning process, it has so far dev....

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 31

Wide-ranging "casual" podcast on causal inference, good snapshots of this broad interdisciplinary field

e.g., this conversation (s3, ep12) with epidemiologist Sander Greenland

my take & project: ethnographers not yet involved, though they can and should be

casualinfer.libsyn.com/it-depends-w...

Casual Inference: It Depends with Sander Greenland | Season 3 Episode 12

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Sander Greenland, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidem...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 19

My team's (open access) article was one of the AAA's Top Journal Articles of 2024, follow the links to download for free

"Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology"

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/top...

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Dec 18

Love...

"Engagement with performance-based art such as plays, musicals & ballet, and particularly participation in music, is linked to reductions in depression and in pain and improved quality of life."

Consuming arts & culture is good for health, study www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds

Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

www.theguardian.com

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Dec 5

📢 The final CCE seminar of 2024 is coming up soon with @djsmith90.bsky.social leading us into the 🎄 festive 🎄season with a presentation on

*Religion and mental health: a causal Christmas carol* 🎅

📆 18th Dec 2024 - 12:45 in person start with food, 13:00 online talk start

🔓Open to all

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 16

Special Issue: The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology

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Special Issue: The Influences of Religion and Spirituality on Human Biology: American Journal of Human Biology: Vol 36, No 12

The American Journal of Human Biology publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles and timely reviews, and brief communications in human biology.

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 14

I see more promise in Reddit and Discord

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 14

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

[Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.]

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That. (Gift Article)

Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 14

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

[Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.]

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...

Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That. (Gift Article)

Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Dec 12

"Read This Before Buying That Video Game"

(Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.)
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Opinion | How Videogames Fell From Art to Addictive (Gift Article)

Big corporations turned video games from an engaging artistic medium into something addictive and gambling-adjacent.

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Dec 10

Why might NGOs play games with communities - games where participants don't even earn money? Marco Janssen: people can experiment with different solutions that can fail in the safe space of the game; one NGO reports that communities try solutions from water games in real life & they often work

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Nov 30

Identifying Playfulness: An Empirical Study on How Adults Recognize and Define Playfulness Across Culture
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · Nov 30

Mats Steen aka Ibelin Redmoore
youtu.be/8eGLtSdg1bA?...

Ibelin: ‘Our gamer son proved us wrong about World of Warcraft’

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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