| Retelling urban legends. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 17892088 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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We explored factors influencing the retelling of urban legends. As predicted by prior work, people retold truthful and scary stories. But people also retold well-known stories. This contrasts with the expectation that people would not pass on a story that everyone already knew. Also as predicted by prior work, repeating a story increased its credibility. But repeating also increased a story's importance, scariness, and likelihood of retelling. In general, contextualizing a story and increasing the number of details did not affect the likelihood of retelling a story. The exception was that details increased the likelihood of retelling a newly heard story. However, if people read a story with context or details, more contextual elements and details were included in their retellings. At the same time, people confabulated details to an equal degree no matter what type of embellishments they had read. |
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Authors:
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Jean E Fox Tree; Mary Susan Weldon |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The American journal of psychology Volume: 120 ISSN: 0002-9556 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Psychol Publication Date: 2007 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-09-25 Completed Date: 2007-10-19 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0370513 Medline TA: Am J Psychol Country: United States |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 459-76 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, 95064, USA. foxtree@cats.ucsc.edu |
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Adolescent Adult Anecdotes as Topic* Attitude* Deception* Emotions Humans Mental Recall Narration* Probability Questionnaires Reading Semantics United States Verbal Behavior* |
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