Chicken Tumours and a Fishy Revenge: Evidence for Emotional Content Bias in the Cumulative Recall of Urban Legends
This study used urban legends to examine the effects of a cognitive bias for content which evokes higher levels of emotion on cumulative recall. As with previous research into content biases, a linear transmission chain design was used. One-hundred and twenty participants, aged 16–52, were asked to...
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2017
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 17, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 12-26 |
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Cultural Evolution
cultural transmission
emotional content bias
folklore
urban legend
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