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Comment on Leeds (1995)

Paul Cardwell, Jr.
Committee for the Advancement of
Role-Playing Games

Abstract

This article relates research conducted by the Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games (CAR-PGa) to Leeds (1995), which found significant differences among avowed Satanists, game players, and a control group on three measures. Although Leeds's study is useful in many ways, serious deficiencies in one of his measures, the Satanic and Fantasy Envelopment survey, result in misleading conclusions.

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