The Differential Effect of Role-Playing Conditions on the Accuracy of Self-Evaluation

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  • DAVID A. KIPPER Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/jawmb540

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Self-Evaluation

Abstract

The hypothesis that different kinds of role-playing situations affect the accuracy of evaluating one's own behavior as shown through videotape feedback was tested. Two groups of 15 subjects each participated in a role-playing episode, one conducted under a mimetic-pretend condition and the other under a spontaneous condition. The results confirmed the prediction that subjects in the former group will produce more accurate self-evaluations than those in the latter group.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 41 No. 1 (1988): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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