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 stylistic transformation through which the original facts are increasingly replaced by opinions and interpretations, with a slant toward negativity. Her article “The dynamics of distortion: How successive summarization alters the retelling of news”, was published with Robert Meyer and Yoon Duk Kim, on January 7, 2021 in the Journal of Marketing Research.

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Or support us for as little as $1 per month at Patreon. Cancel anytime.We’re not a registered tax-exempt organization, so unfortunately gifts aren't tax deductible.Hosts / ProducersDoug Leigh & Ryan WatkinsHow to CiteLeigh, D., Watkins, R., & Melumad, S.. (2021). Parsing Science - Positively Negative. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14207465MusicWhat’s The Angle? by Shane IversTranscriptShiri Melumad: What is I think kind of scary is that, with each new retelling, it also becomes increasingly more opinionated and increasingly negative.Ryan Watkins: This is Parsing Science,