Telling a Story or Telling it Straight: The Effects of Entertaining Versus Accurate Retellings on Memory

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Spinning the Stories of our Lives (2004, background): “In laboratory studies, people tell stories differently depending on whether their goal is accuracy or entertainment ( Dudukovic, Marsh, & Tversky, 2004; Wade & Clark, 1993), and whether their audience is a peer or an experimenter (Hyman, 1994; for other work on audience effects, see Adams, Smith, P”
Retelling Is Not the Same as Recalling (2007, background): “It was not that one group of subjects included some events but not others; rather, two groups of subjects talked very differently about the same events (Dudukovic et al., 2004).”
Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits (2015, background): “For example, someone who has the goal of entertaining others will recount an autobiographical experience differently than someone who has the goal of veracity and completeness (Dudukovic et al., 2004).”
Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves: A Process Model of Self-Development (2007, background): “Finally, a large body of work from experimental social and cognitive psychology supports the idea that goals play a causal role in shaping situated stories (e.g., Dudukovic et al., 2004; McGregor & Holmes, 1999; Tversky & Marsh, 2000).”