«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «PSICHOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «PSYCHOLOGY»
ISSN 2304-1226 (Print)

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Functional State of Actors While Playing Various Emotionally Charged Scenes

Author(s)
A. S. Chernykh, I. A. Tregubenko
Abstract
Professional activities of actors have been investigated in various branches of the psychological science for many decades. Yet, there are certain aspects dealing with the inner state of actors while they are performing and psychic processes influencing it that remain to be studied. The study has revealed that a functional state of actors goes through significant changes when they are performing emotionally charged scenes, depending on their affinity to their personal experience and emotional valence. At the same time, modifications of a functional state of non-actors are statistically credible only while recollection but not while picturing emotional situations in one’s mind. It has been concluded that a significant modification of a functional state in response to imaginable emotional events is specific for professional activities of an actor.
About the Authors

Chernykh Anna Sergeevna, Postgraduate, Department of Medical Psychology and Psychophysiology, St. Petersburg State University, 7-9, Universitetskaya emb., Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation, e-mail: chernykhannette@gmail.com

Tregubenko Ilya Alexandrovich, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology of Professional Activity and Information Technologies in Education, Herzen State Pedagogical University, 48, Moika River emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation, e-mail: psy560@yandex.ru

For citation

Chernykh A.S., Tregubenko I.A. Functional State of Actors While Playing Various Emotionally Charged Scenes. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology, 2024, vol. 50, pp. 77-92. https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2024.50.77 (in Russian)

Keywords
functional state, dynamics of psychophysiological indices, psychology of art, psychology of an actor, actor’s art.
UDC
159.9.072.2; 612.821.2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2024.50.77
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