Speak what you feel, not what you ought to say

http://www.psychologicals...06/pr060125.cfm

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Now, this ain't necessarily so, but it sounds plausible and the researchers in questions have spent a lot of time in serious consideration of this question. Either way, I kinda wish i'd had a drama teacher who believed this at school. I never had a great memory for mere words and was extremely antithetical to acting.  The mere idea of faking ones feelings is somewhat distant to my mildly autistic scientists mind and the idea of faking things in the exactly same way time and time again was even more ridiculous. Although since it seemed utterly impossible to remember the words in the first place, I did not see how I'd ever be in a position to stand there pretending to care with someone elses words in my mouth. I would have been interested to try it if they had told me that the words really didn't matter very much, that i could use my own if i chose and that one should start from the circumstances. It would have changed my perspective considerably, i'd like to improvise.. it is after all what you and i do every day of our own lives. There would still be the problem of having to do things approximately the same each time and the cooperation required to avoid descent into anarchy. But it could have been a start.