Embodiment in theatre : effects on emotional response, empathy, and experience-taking.

• Main Author: Liew, Jia Yi.
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52694
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...