The Psychology of Rumor

Allport, G. W., & Postman, L. (1947). The Psychology of Rumor.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1947

Link

https://archive.org/details/psychologyofrumo0000allpmatched

Cited from

cognitive_science

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Differential Decay
  • Telephone-game transmission: hedges ("apparently," "I heard that") decay faster than nouns and assertions, so a story three hops away has lost its qualifications.

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