Question. (A) In a wonderful set of studies and subsequent book, Elly A. Konijn looked the question of how much actors are aware of their performance as they perform it, and how much they let the character “take over”.
(B) She asked Dutch actors to ratre their own emotions and the emotions of the characters they were playing across a range of affective states.
(C) She found that positive emotions were often felt by the actors as they played those character’s emotions.
(D) However, the more negative the emotion of the character, the less likely the actor would report feeling that emotion onstage.
