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Mar 2021
- Parsing Science
- Business, Psychology
- natural language processing, cover story, disagreeable personalization, negativity bias, telephone game, informational distortion, serial reproduction, storytelling, lexical specificity, subjectivity, first-person perspective, transcript, emotional valence, social media, synopses, word-of-mouth, novelty, information diffusion, uniqueness, retelling, successive summarization
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...