Steve Discont can found on twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/bearlynormal">@bearlynormal</a>, and Porter Green at <a href="https://twitter.com/dagmarrugosa">@DagmarRugosa</a>.Our guest Ben Aldred can be found at <a href="https://twitter.com/sleepingscholar">@sleepingscholar</a>. You can find a blog of Ben’s thoughts on gaming <a href="https://aldredongaming.blogspot.com/">here</a>.You can go to the following URLs or research articles to learn about some of the topics discussed in this episode:Ben Aldred’s <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000094865486&view=1up&seq=1">graduate thesis on the folkloric study of roleplaying</a>Ben Aldred’s <a href="https://folkloreforum.net/2009/01/14/the-dynamics-of-tradition-and-folk-groups-in-the-role-playing-game/">study of the use of humor at the gaming table</a>“<a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study">Tuskegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study</a>” by Elizabeth Nix at History.comThe U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/">Office for Human Research Protections</a>“<a href="https://www.apa.org/research/responsible/peer/">Peer Review</a>” by the American Psychological Association

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Session Zero is a discussion podcast that seeks to explore the psychology of roleplaying. Each episode will feature a new aspect of the experience of roleplaying, viewed through the lens of psychology by clinical psychologist Porter Green and industrial-organizational psychologist Steve Discont, They're doing the thinking, and you get to do the listening.