The assessment of involvement in role playing
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Assessment of Social Interaction Behaviors
Published on: February 25, 2011
1Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
Abstract:
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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