Telehone game / Chinese whispers studies?

[Kuko 4000]

I'm looking for any good studies on the Telephone game. Possibly to find out some hard data on how fast the information generally distorts in mouth to mouth communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

I've now googled for some time but can't seem to find any hits. And in any case, there's a good chance some of you can point me to the right direction with little effort, thanks in advance!

[neltana]

I found this post that in turn provides links to a few works that you may find relevant:
http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0408&L=socnet&P=7667


- Brissey, F.L. (1961) "The Factor of Relevance in the Serial
Reproduction of Information" The Journal of Communication 11:211-219
[Results of experiment where successive generations of subjects read
and wrote descriptions of a film and answered T-F questions about
content.]

- Campbell, Donald T. (1958) "Systematic Error on the Part of Human
Links in Communication Systems" Information and Control 1:334-369
[ Survey of literature and interesting discussion of general error
tenancies in communication chains]

- Greenberg, Bradley, S. (1964) "Person-to-Person Communication in
the Diffusion of News Events" Journalism Quarterly 41:489-494
[Results of a four-day telephone survey of knowledge of news stories
ranging from 'important' to' unimportant']

- Jacobs, Robert C., Campbell, Donald T. (1961) "The Perpetuation of
an Arbitrary Tradition Through Several Generations of a Laboratory
Microculture" Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 62:649-658
[Intriguing experiment on transmission chains and the effects of
group conformity on Ss reports of 'Sherif' perceptual phenomena]

- Kurke, Lance B., Weick, Karl E., Ravlin, Elizabeth C. (1989) "Can
Information Loss Be Reversed?" Communication Research 16:3-24
[Ss read previous Ss written version of a story, wrote a version for
next S. Data was collected on loss of detail and distortion as the
story was passed down the chain, and reconstruction as it was passed
back up]

There are a few more related cites at:
http://student.bennington.edu/~skyebend/BenderdeMoll01/biblo.html


Hope these help

[Kuko 4000]

I hope so too, thanks for the links :)