Acting Out of Character

Acting in Character

In this context, it is not the personality of the actor that interests us, but the personality of the character he or she portrays. Thus, when we say that an actor is “in character,” we mean that the actor is behaving in accordance with a personality created by an author, shaped by a director, and assumed by an audience, for purposes of a particular performance. A good actor creates and communi...

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LIPOPHILIC CHARACTER AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF NEW POTENTIAL LONG-ACTING LOCAL ANESTHETICS

The partition coefficients (P-values) of certain new potential, stereoselective, reversible, long-acting local anesthetics have been determined in an n-octanol/ phosphate buffer system. These are derivatives of 2-phenoxyethyldialkylamine hydrochloride, and almost all of them are readily soluble in water. Their aqueous solutions have shown different absorption maxima, and these have been use...

Balancing Plot and Character Believability by Reasoning Out-of-Character

▪ Leary’s Rose: a model that divides interpersonal stances in the dimensions of dominance and friendliness. ▪ My proposal: virtual characters use this model to reason OOC to adopt an IC stance that opposes that of the police officer. ▪ Example below: a police officer has a friendly-submissive (cooperative) stance toward a juvenile. ▪ OOC the juvenile adopts an opposing hostile-dominant stance (...

Proteins acting out of (dis)order

A disordered region at the N-terminus of the glucocorticoid receptor can fine tune how cells respond to a hormone via an allosteric mechanism.

Psychologic management of the "acting out" adolescent.