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Emotion memory (affectivnaia pamiat) is a acting technique developed by the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski.

Stanislavski's 'system' of training, preparation, and rehearsal technique

Action and emotion
You can't squeeze feelings out of yourself, you can't be jealous, love, suffer for the sake of being jealous, loving, or suffering. You can't force feelings. That only leads to the most repulsive kind of ham acting. So, when choosing an action, leave your feelings alone. They will appear of their own accord as a result of something which has gone before, that evokes jealousy, love, or suffering. Think hard about what has gone before and re-create it. Don't be concerned with the result. [...] The true actor should not ape the outward manifestations of passion, or copy outward form, or indulge in mechanical playacting according to some ham ritual or other, but perform actions in a genuine human fashion. You must not play passions and characters but react under the influence of passion, in character. The selection, shaping, and control over their actions enables the actors to evoke emotional experience and subconscious behaviour indirectly, since a sequence of feelings are provoked by their "through-actions".