The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story: The Distortion of Stories in the Service of Entertainment
The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story: The Distortion of Stories in the Service of Entertainment
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真相永远不会妨碍好故事：为娱乐服务的故事扭曲
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.946212
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
Amber Jurgens
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作者：
Jeremy Burrus;J. Kruger;Amber Jurgens
人们的动机往往是娱乐性。过去的研究表明，那些给出娱乐目标的人讲述的故事与那些给出准确目标的人不同(例如，Dudukovic，Marsh，&Tversky，2004)。在三项研究中，我们调查了娱乐动机对故事扭曲的影响。在每一项研究中，我们都发现娱乐动机与故事曲解有关。例如，参与者打开了一个蟑螂出没的食物容器，在向一名邦联成员描述这一事件时夸大了蟑螂的大小，而向一群同龄人讲述他们第一次喝醉的情况的参与者声称，他们比用录音机讲述同样的故事时喝得更醉。此外，讲一个好故事的动机的扭曲影响有时也会在没有意识到的情况下发生，不仅影响他们对事件的描述，也影响他们对事件的记忆。
People are often motivated to be entertaining. Past work has shown that those given entertainment goals tell stories differently than those given accuracy goals (e.g. Dudukovic, Marsh, & Tversky, 2004). In three studies we investigate the influence of the motive to entertain on story distortion. In each study, we found that the motive to entertain was related to story distortion. For instance, participants who opened a cockroach-infested container of food exaggerated the size of cockroaches when describing the event to a confederate, and participants telling a group of peers about the first time they got drunk claimed to have been more drunk than when they told the same story to a tape recorder. Furthermore, it was also the case the distorting influence of the motive to tell a good story occasionally occurred without awareness, influencing not only their descriptions of the events but their memories of them as well.