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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 4607057" data-attributes="member: 3192">Wikipedia is wrong and gives various answers on roleplaying (and not just roleplaying) depending upon the page you read.  I wouldn't trust anything there without an outside source to back it up.  And then verify the credibility of the source.  Yes it is. Roleplaying is only the playing of a social role.  Psychiatrists came up with it as a methodology to test people in social roles in order to differentiate roleplaying from acting.  Acting may be used in the methodology, but roleplaying includes the scope of playing a social role.  Acting is the playing of a fictional character.  The only reason we use words like persona is because social scientists like Carl Jung titled our changes in behavior as different personas of our same self.  Actors reference this persona as to what they change to adopt the character's persona as given in the work they are portraying.  Perhaps i f you could tell me what you define roleplaying as and how it is different from theatre, I could help clear up any misconceptions?If you read more of that page, you will see job training and sports scrimmages are roleplaying as well in the same way you and I use the term roleplaying.  The only way we really differentiate from the "psych definition" is our roles are often fictional, meaning we need a simulated reality in order to play a wizard.  This is most obviously seen in computer roleplaying games termed roleplaying simulations when not dealing with fictional roles (not MMO wizards, but flight simulator pilot training).EDIT: That link is pure comedy.  The word ROLE is hyperlinked to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role" target="_blank">social role</a> and the word  CHARACTER is hyperlinked <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_(performing_arts)" target="_blank">theatrical role</a>.  It contradicts itself in the first sentence of its' definition.</blockquote>

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