Two studies demonstrated that individuals can fail to detect changes in their actions that are induced by implicit social influence. In both studies, observers' impressions indicated that actors matched the positivity of their remarks about themselves to the positivity of another person's self-description. However, actors' own judgments of the types of impressions they conveyed revealed that th...

We report three experiments comparing con®dence judgments made by actors and by observers. In Experiment 1, actors generated qualitative answers (countries of the world) in a country-identi®cation task; in Experiment 2, actors generated quantitative answers (years) in a historical event-dating task. Both actors and observers indicated their con®dence in the actors' answers. Actors were signi®ca...

in this research paper, we applied rituals of social drama processes to find out symbols, decoding and signs in the manegh-al-tair. in our analysis we discovered that birds, instead of humans, are acting as players in the social stage. each of these birds possess some particular characteristics and social statuses, which are attributed to the humans who lived in the attar time (age). to offer m...

background advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. this paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   methods this paper examines the beliefs...

While film has long utilised computers to create otherwise impossible characters, similar use within live stage performances is relatively uncommon. Even within film, these characters have, until recently, been mere puppets controlled by some form of puppeteer. This paper outlines research carried out at Massey University into autonomous synthetic (computer) actors that are capable of learning ...

This paper tries to provide a detailed and complete description of merging virtual actors with animation in a real environment. It describes the tasks involved in each stage of integration such as the video acquisition, the extraction of camera parameters, the creation and animation of virtual actors, and the rendering of the final images. The most important problems are discussed: real objects...