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In
social psychology Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the r ...
, a transmission chain is when information is passed between people sequentially, each person in the chain usually modifying the information they were given. This is similar to the western
telephone game Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English) or telephone (American English and Canadian English) is an internationally popular children's game. It is also called transmission chain experiments in the context of cultural evolution research, and ...
. The transmission chain method is a method used in
cultural evolution Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching, imitation a ...
research to uncover biases in cultural transmission. This method was first developed by Frederic Bartlett in 1932.


Application in studies of memory

The transmission chain method is used to reveal what elements of a story participants are most likely to
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, as well as how they transform the elements of the story. Bartlett's pioneering book, ''Remembering'' describes a series of studies of transmission of various material, from Native American folk tales to descriptions of sporting events. From these he made two major inferences, corroborated by later studies: loss of the detail and dependence of the quality remembering on pre-existing knowledge. From these he inferred that remembering is a process of reconstruction of information, rather than of replication.


See also

* Isnad, the transmission chain of narrators to authenticate a ''
hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
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References

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