Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2019 Aug;148(8):1407-1425. doi: 10.1037/xge0000624. Epub 2019 May 13.
During the process of acting, actors have to embody the characters that they are portraying by changing their vocal and gestural features to match standard conceptions of the characters. In this experimental study of acting, we had professional actors portray a series of stock characters (e.g., king, bully, lover), which were organized according to a predictive scheme based on the 2 orthogonal personality dimensions of assertiveness and cooperativeness. We measured 12 prosodic features of the actors' vocal productions, as related to pitch, loudness, timbre, and duration/timing. The results showed a significant effect of character assertiveness on all 12 vocal parameters, but a weaker effect of cooperativeness on fewer vocal parameters. These findings comprise the first experimental analysis of vocal gesturing during character portrayal in actors and demonstrate that actors reliably manipulate prosodic cues in a contrastive manner to differentiate characters based on their personality traits. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
在表演过程中，演员通过改变他们的声音和手势特征来符合角色的标准概念来体现他们所扮演的角色。在这个关于表演的实验研究中，我们让专业演员扮演一系列的角色（例如，国王、恶霸、爱人），这些角色是根据基于决断性和合作性的两个正交人格维度的预测方案组织的。我们测量了演员声音产生的 12 个韵律特征，与音高、响度、音色和时长/时间有关。结果表明，角色决断性对所有 12 个声音参数都有显著影响，而合作性对较少的声音参数的影响较弱。这些发现构成了对演员在角色刻画过程中声音手势的首次实验分析，证明了演员可靠地以对比的方式操纵韵律线索，根据角色的个性特征来区分角色。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
