From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Tue 17 Feb 2004 - 01:02:50 GMT
At 08:32 PM 16/02/04 +0000, derek wrote:
>Just come across an amazing old book. Allport GW &
>Postman L (1947) The Psychology of Rumor. Henry Holt
>& Co., New York. Just about everything you would want
>to know about fast acting verbal behavioural contagions.
Back in 1996 on alt.memetics I wrote:
"I once saw something like this in (I think) a book called Rumor. I have a
copy of this page somewhere. It was a visual/drawing version of the game
"telephone." It stared with a rather stylized drawing of an owl which was
serial copied by a number of people. The drawing degenerated in a few
panels with the hand copy process to something very hard to figure out,
and then jumped to become a cat. After that, the rest of the panels were
clearly cats.
"There is a name for stable attractors of this sort, but I can't think of
it at the moment."
Could you take a quick look through the book and see if this has the owl to
cat page? If it does, I sure would appreciate your making a jpg of the page.
Keith Henson
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