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All the actors were members of the university or college dramatic societies and were used to public performance to a high standard; the directors were student directors with considerable experience directing plays for public performance. The plays had been fully rehearsed and the actors and directors were each paid £20.
- Experimental Setup
- Data Collection
- Statistical Analysis
The experiment took place at the Diapason theatre (Rennes city, France) from the 4th to the 8th of February 2013. Fifteen actors (eight females and seven males, aged between 18 and 25 years old) under training (Acting school of “Théâtre National de Bretagne”) took part in a play. The play was composed of 15 different skits lasting about 3 min each....
Three types of data were collected: spectators’ behaviours, spectators’ and actors’ responses to questionnaires, spectators and actors’ Galvanic Response scores.
Given our small sample size, we chose to run only nonparametric statistics. We used Wilcoxon tests (for related samples) to compare the responses given to questionnaires by actors (using rankings as individual values) as well as their galvanic skin response rates in the three representations. We used Mann–Whitney tests (for unrelated samples) to co...
- Alban Lemasson, Vanessa André, Mathilde Boudard, Christophe Lunel, Daria Lippi, Hugo Cousillas, Mart...
- 2021
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