Rumors How are rumors transmitted Allport and Postman
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Rumors
How are rumors transmitted? Allport and Postman identified 3 steps in rumor transmission 1. Leveling • The story gets shorter with only some details remembered 2. Sharpening • Details are emphasized and gain importance
How are rumors transmitted? 3. Assimilation • Distortions occur because of personal bias of person telling the story
How are rumors transmitted? Allport and Postman also found: • Rumors circulates within a group based on its importance and its ambiguity of the subject • Rumors often lead to other forms of collective behavior • For example – riots, panics, etc
Examples • Brooklyn Bridge (1883) – Rumor: unsafe – Someone screamed “the bridge is falling” – 40 people injured – 12 trampled to death
Examples • Proctor & Gamble – Rumor: 1979, logo was satanic (13 stars) – 1985, logo was removed
Examples • Beatles – Rumor: 1969, Paul Mc. Cartney was dead and had been killed in 1966 – A double was hired to impersonate him – he was a fraud – John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison tried to be honest and give clues to the fans
Examples – “Revolution #9” backwards says “turn me on dead man” and “Paul is dead – miss him” – Cover of Magical Mystery Tour – all wore red carnations, except Paul wore a black carnation
Examples – Cover of Abbey Road – resembled a funeral procession. Lennon (the priest), Starr (undertaker), Mc. Cartney barefoot, out of step and eyes closed (corpse) Harrison (gravedigger) • Car in background has license plate 28 IF • Mc. Cartney would have been 28 if he were still alive
Backmasking • a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward on to a track that is meant to be played forward. • Top 10 Famous Cases of Backmasking
Three Men and a Ghost? • Rumor: boy died in the house where the movie was filmed and his ghost returned to haunt the film crew
Disney Rumors • The Little Mermaid • Lion King • Aladdin
Wizard of Oz • See Snopes
Urban Legends • Stories that teach a lesson and seem realistic but are untrue • Seem realistic because some give specific times and places • Sometimes said to have happened to someone known to the storyteller • Snopes
A young girl named Lisa was left alone on several accounts as her parents worked late. Her parents bought her a dog to keep her company. One night Lisa was awoken by a constant dripping sound. She got up and went to the kitchen to turn off the tap properly. As she was getting back into the bed she stuck her hand under the bed and the dog licked it. The dripping sound continued, so she went to the bathroom and turned off the tap properly in there, too. She went back to her bedroom and stuck her hand under the bed, and the dog licked it again. But the dripping continued, so she went outside and turned off the taps out there. She came back to bed, stuck her hand under it, and the dog licked it again. The dripping continued, drip, drip. This time she listened and located the source of the dripping — it was coming from her cupboard. She opened the cupboard door, and there was her dog hanging upside down with its neck cut, and written on the window on the inside of the cupboard was, "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO!!!"
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