| Summary: | The article investigates the average person's acting ability subjects were asked to role-play introversion and extraversion-commonsense personality types. Forty-six subjects assessed on dispositional extraversion were videotaped as they role-played being math teachers. All subjects were taped during three trials in which they taught as "themselves," role-played introverts, and role-played extraverts. A number of expressive behaviors, such as amount of forward eye-contact, stride length, and graphic expansiveness, were measured, and naive raters judged how "extraverted" subjects appeared in their three trials. The results showed that dispositional extraversion "leaked through" role-playing, subjects showed individual differences in "acting ability" consistent with researcher M. Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale, subjects high on self-monitoring, and who therefore reported having good ability to control their expressive behavior, showed greater expressive leakage and consistency than subjects low on self-monitoring, and subjects high on self-monitoring seemed to show dispositional leakage through bodily expressive behavior while subjects low on self-monitoring did not.
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