On Tue, 25 May 1999, Oliver Bloch wrote:
> I have a student in AP Psychology doing a research paper on the
> interplay between emotions and acting, generally whether an actor
> who is portraying an emotional experience undergoes a
> psychological and/or physiological experience equivalent to that of
> someone actually experiencing the emotion, and whether the
> degree to which the two experiences are equivalent might be
> dependent on the actor's method (e.g. the Stanislavsky Method
> teaches actors to recall an actual emotional experience in order to
> portray it). This all started with class discussions on various
> theories of emotion: Cannon-Bard, James Lange, etc.
>
> I am hoping there might be some research available in the areas of
> emotion and memory which might pertain, but I am frankly a little
> out of my depth.
This sounds like a job for facial feedback man, who holds that your
facial expressions determine your emotions. Most recent textbooks on
motivation cover the issue. I also have the following starter
references:
Levenson, R. et al (1990). Voluntary facial action generates
emotion-specific autonomic nervous system activity.
Psychophysiology, 27, 363--
Adelmann, P., & Zajonc, R. (1989). Facial efference and the
experience of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 40, 249-
Zajonc, R., et al (1989). Feeling and facial efference: implications
of the vascular theory of emotion. Psychological Review, 96, 395-
-Stephen
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