Fact vs. Affect in the Telephone Game: All Levels of Surprise Are Retold With High Accuracy, Even Independently of Facts.

Front Psychol · 2018 · PMC6255933 · PMID 30515116

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may not be significantno p-value reported

Since narratives concern social information, the difference may not be significant in cultural transmission.

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a weak trendno p-value reported

(There was a weak trend of further stabilization from the second to third retelling for the Jason and Sarah stories, whereas the Robert stories had a lower correlation of surprisingness values between the second and third retelling than between the first and second retellings).

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