Rating the Acting Moment: Exploring Characteristics for Realistic Portrayals of Characters.

ABSTRACT: Good actors appear to become their characters, making them come alive, as if they were real. Is this because they have succeeded in merging themselves with their character? Are there any positive or negative psychological effects of this experience? We examined the role of three characteristics that may make this kind of merging possible: dissociation, flow, and empathy. We also examined the relation of these characteristics to acting quality. Acting students (n = 44) and non-acting students (n = 43) completed a dissociation measure, and then performed a monologue that was recorded and rated on the dimensions of acting. Participants were then reassessed on dissociation to determine whether it increased as a function of performance. They were also then assessed on flow and emp

SUBMITTER: Panero ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7889958 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature