The Impact of Drama-Acting Training on Emotion Recognition and Expression: A Systematic Review

Drama-acting is a form of art that is close to our day-to-day experience, and one of its focuses is on how to deliever the characters' feeling to the audiences. Given this feature, one of the key elements of drama-acting training is to enhance the capability of emotion skills, including emotion recognition and expression. Emotion recognition and expression are to critical skills for our mental wellbeing and social life. This made both skills become a target of interventions, and researchers found that drama-acting training could be helpful in improving one's emotion and recognition skills. However, the previous findings showed inconsistent results and also the variety of training methods lead to the difficulties in replication of research. Here, we conduct a systematic review, aiming to capture the published studies that using drama-acting training to improve individuals' emotion recognition and expression skills.