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Title: Im Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV: Children and Adults Understanding of Acting
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Realistic acting surrounds us on television, movies and on stages. It is the dominant form of play seen in Western culture, and yet we do not have a psychology of how children and adults understand the dual nature of actingthe actor and his/her character. In a two studies, we investigated how adults and children understand the personality, skills, emotional states and physical characteristics of actors while they portray characters, and if they confuse actors with their characters. We explored when children develop the capacity to distinguish actors from the characteristics they portray and how and when adults continue to confuse actors and characters. Children do not seem to understand acting until at least five years old, when they begin to distinguish how and when traits transfer. Adults too judge that states and traits transfer, but distinguish between different kinds of characteristics in their judgments.
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Authors: Goldstein, Thalia R.
Publisher: Pace University
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