Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking.
Embodiment is a relatively new area of research in the social psychology literature, where it looks at how an individual’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are rooted in the human body. By grounding role-playing in embodiment theories, this paper aims to explore how role-playing can affect one’s em...
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| author | Liew, Jia Yi. |
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| description | Embodiment is a relatively new area of research in the social psychology literature, where it looks at how an individual’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are rooted in the human body. By grounding role-playing in embodiment theories, this paper aims to explore how role-playing can affect one’s emotional response, empathy, experience-taking, and locus of control, in a theatre setting. Particularly, it is of the study’s interest to find out if there is any differential outcome between physical simulation (via role-playing) and mental simulation (via imagined role-playing). Contrary to the initial hypotheses, it was found that mental simulation significantly enhanced emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking more than physical simulation. Possible explanations and implications of the findings are discussed. Keywords: embodiment, simulation, empathy, perspective taking, locus of control, emotional response, role-playing, forum theatre. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/526942019-12-10T12:37:58Z Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. Liew, Jia Yi. Wan Ching School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Embodiment is a relatively new area of research in the social psychology literature, where it looks at how an individual’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are rooted in the human body. By grounding role-playing in embodiment theories, this paper aims to explore how role-playing can affect one’s emotional response, empathy, experience-taking, and locus of control, in a theatre setting. Particularly, it is of the study’s interest to find out if there is any differential outcome between physical simulation (via role-playing) and mental simulation (via imagined role-playing). Contrary to the initial hypotheses, it was found that mental simulation significantly enhanced emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking more than physical simulation. Possible explanations and implications of the findings are discussed. Keywords: embodiment, simulation, empathy, perspective taking, locus of control, emotional response, role-playing, forum theatre. Bachelor of Arts 2013-05-22T06:21:20Z 2013-05-22T06:21:20Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52694 en Nanyang Technological University 84 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Liew, Jia Yi. Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title | Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title_full | Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title_fullStr | Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title_short | Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking. |
| title_sort | embodiment in theatre effects on emotional response empathy and experience taking |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology |
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