Bartlett (1932), stories
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Frederic Bartlett's 1932 book *Remembering* documents early experiments
that explore how using and transmitting a memory can affect the memory’s
contents. Bartlett wanted to understand how culture shapes memory.
Inspired by Philippe (1897), he performed a series of experiments that
asked participants to repeatedly recall a memory or to pass it down a
chain of people, from one to the next. Bartlett showed that the process
of reproduction alters memories over time, causing them to take on
features from an individual’s culture. More generally, the methods he
developed expose cumulative effects of the forces that reshape and
degrade memories and how they impact the structure and veracity of what
we remember.

Bartlett, F. C. (1932). Remembering. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.

In this demo, a story is passed down a chain.


`Download the demo <../../_static/bartlett1932.zip>`__.
