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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dogbrain" data-source="post: 1572627" data-attributes="member: 14980">Psychological Reports 1998 Feb;82(1):182.Personalities of players of Dungeons and Dragons.Carter R, Lester D.Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012-5356, USA.20 men who played Dungeons and Dragons did not differ in mean scores on depression, suicidal ideation, psychoticism, extraversion, or neuroticism from unselected undergraduates.Psychol Rep. 1990 Jun;66(3 Pt 2):1219-22.Alienation and the game dungeons and dragons.DeRenard LA, Kline LM.Murray State University, KY 42071.The media has speculated about negative effects of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons on players of the game. This study examined differences in feelings of alienation between 35 active players and 35 nonplayers. Fewer players expressed feelings of meaninglessness and more players expressed feelings of cultural estrangement than nonplayers. Other feelings of alienation between players and non-players were not different.This paper defined "cultural estrangement" as "not watching lots of TV and not following sports".</blockquote>