Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

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New publication,
"Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts"
with @joelbillieux.bsky.social
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New publication,
"Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts"
with @joelbillieux.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

When might this reach cultural anthropology to constitute a credible ethnographic science?

7/ Survey experiments surge and now account for roughly 45% of all design-based studies. Lab experiments decline sharply after 2016, while field experiments and most quasi-experimental designs grow slowly from a very low base

6/ The revolution is driven mainly by survey experiments and, to a much lesser extent, DID and unconfoundedness designs with matching & reweighting. Field experiments, IV, RDDs, natural experiments, and synthetic control all remain relatively rare in the discipline.

4/ In our coding, design-based studies pin causality on a clear source of (quasi-)random variation and spell out identification assumptions, while model-based studies rely mainly on functional-form and statistical assumptions, often treating regression coefficients as causal

3/ About 40% of articles are empirical & quantitative. Of these, 81% are explanatory–using causal relationships to explain social phenomena–and just 29% of explanatory studies use explicit design-based methods. Most causal work still relies on model-based strategies or leaves the design implicit

New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Join me and fellow panelists 4:15-5:45pm this Friday, Nov. 21st in New Orleans at the AAAs,

"Causal Explanation in Cultural Therapeutic and Health Processes: New Directions in Medical and Psychological Anthropology"

See the AAA "Program" for more info: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/meeting/

Join me and fellow panelists 4:15-5:45pm this Friday, Nov. 21st in New Orleans at the AAAs,

"Causal Explanation in Cultural Therapeutic and Health Processes: New Directions in Medical and Psychological Anthropology"

See the AAA "Program" for more info: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/meeting/

We have gathered some resources for creating and presenting posters at conferences. These resources include examples of past posters presented at AAA or SfAA, as well as websites with additional information on guidelines and advice.

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Cyberpsychology

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.
cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

latest lab pub, open access
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latest lab pub, open access
cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

🔟 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...

🌞 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! 🙌

📚📚📚 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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American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the article title to read more.

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

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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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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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/

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/

Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

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...

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

Added a few more to this one, for those new to Bluesky! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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