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    "pk": 28763,
    "title": "Uncertain evidence statements and guilt perceptionin iterative reproductions of crime stories",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Transmission of information by means of language is a po-tentially lossy process. Especially adjunct information, suchas the graded degree of evidence, is a piece of informationthat seems prima facie likely to be distorted by reproductionnoise. To investigate this issue, we present the results of a two-step iterated narration study: first, we collected a corpus of250 crime story reproductions that were produced in parallelreproduction chains of 5 generations in depth, for 5 differentseed stories; a second separate large-scale experiment then tar-geted readers’ interpretation of these reproductions. Crucially,strength of evidence for the guilt of each story’s suspect(s)was manipulated in the initial seed stories. Across genera-tions, readers’ guilt perceptions decreased when the evidencewas originally strong, but remained stable when evidence wasoriginally weak. Analysis of linguistic measures revealed thatdissimilarity between a seed story and its reproduction, storylength, and amount of hedging language affected the readers’own guilt perception and the readers’ attribution of guilt per-ception to the author differently. The results provide evidencethat evidential information indeed influences guilt perceptionin complex ways.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "experimental pragmatics; iterated narration; trans-mission chains; uncertain evidence"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1v21w7sj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elisa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kreiss",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Franke",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Osnabrück",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Judith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Degen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}