The Consciousness of Acting: The Effect of Divided and Unified Consciousness on Acting Performance

IF 1.6 4区 心理学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Maria Pleshkevich, Mark E. Mattson
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The art of acting, drama, or theatre has been largely excluded from the debate on the nature of consciousness in the scientific community. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether acting performance benefits from a divided or unified state of consciousness. Twenty-four acting students and professionals performed a monologue three times, twice with an interference task. Two different sets of instructions were provided for this task: one that asked participants to incorporate the interference into the world of their monologue (unified consciousness), and another that asked them to dissociate it from their theatrical performance (divided consciousness). The variables studied included an evaluation of performance on primary and secondary tasks, as well as responses on a creativity and dissociative experiences questionnaire and to open-ended questions. Two acting professors provided monologue ratings. There was a significant difference in interference task performance scores for the divided and unified conscious conditions, as well as for the primary rater's monologue scores. Participants performed better on both tasks when they were asked to incorporate the interference into the imagined world of their monologue. These results show that a unified conscious approach results in better performance on certain tasks, implying that unified consciousness may be more adaptive for certain daily functions such as multitasking.
表演意识:分裂意识和统一意识对表演的影响
在科学界关于意识本质的争论中,表演艺术、戏剧或剧场在很大程度上被排除在外。本研究的目的是调查表演艺术是否能从分裂或统一的意识状态中获益。24 名表演专业的学生和专业人士表演了三遍独白,其中两遍带有干扰任务。这项任务提供了两套不同的指令:一套指令要求参与者将干扰纳入独白世界(统一意识),另一套指令则要求他们将干扰从戏剧表演中分离出来(分裂意识)。研究变量包括对主要任务和次要任务表现的评估,以及对创造力和分离体验问卷和开放式问题的回答。两位表演教授对独白进行了评分。在分裂意识和统一意识条件下,干扰任务的表现得分以及主要评分者的独白得分存在明显差异。当要求参与者将干扰纳入其独白的想象世界时,他们在这两项任务中的表现都更好。这些结果表明,在某些任务中,统一意识方法会带来更好的表现,这意味着统一意识可能对某些日常功能(如多任务处理)更具适应性。
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