On 2013-08-24, at 11:26 AM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: > Looks like a fundamental attribution error problem. The person's behavior is > presumed to be indicative of character/personality/race/etc., situational > factors are discounted/ignored. The situation here is the person on screen is > under direction and playing a scripted role. But, based on the FAE, observers > will tend to see the behaviors of the actors in character as their true > character. >
It doesn't count as "research," but I would think the entire phenomenon of "type casting" would bear out the idea that people confuse the actor and the character, which is why actors like Leonard Nimoy had such trouble getting cast in anything (but for replacing Martin Landau in "Mission: Impossible") after his short run on Star Trek. Although William Shatner managed to get a couple of series of his own afterwards, mainly his career has been playing himself. Levar Burton's and Will Wheaton's careers since "Next Generation" have gone much the same way. Patrick Stewart has had more luck, but he had the advantage of having a prior career in another country that wasn't so focused on the Star Trek franchise (and he is easily the most talented actor they ever had on any of the shows). [Let the flaming begin!] :-) Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=27303 or send a blank email to leave-27303-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
