The assessment of involvement in role playing.
Two experiments (N = 169) focused on involvement in role playing. Subjects rated their level of involvement after each enactment; in addition, a probe procedure was used with prompts, increasingly disparate from the content of the role play. In the first experiment, subjects role played an anger of sad scenario; both measures of involvement correlated with emotional response, but were not correlated with each other. In the second experiment, involvement was manipulated experimentally; both measures varied as expected with the manipulation.
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Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001290:Attitude; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012381:Role Playing