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Mar 2021
- Parsing Science
- Business, Psychology
- storytelling, subjectivity, transcript, social media, word-of-mouth, information diffusion, retelling, natural language processing, disagreeable personalization, telephone game, serial reproduction, lexical specificity, first-person perspective, emotional valence, synopses, novelty, uniqueness, successive summarization, cover story, negativity bias, informational distortion
How much can you trust people's retelling of information the've read? In episode 95, Shiri Melumad from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business discusses her research showing that when – much like the children’s game “telephone” – news is repeatedly retold, it undergoes a stylist...