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The Disappearance of Moral Choice in Serially Reproduced Narratives Breithaupt, Fritz Gardner, Kevin M. Kruschke, John K. Liddell, Torrin M. Zorowitz, Samuel Narrative moral stories side taking serial reproduction first-person versus third person narrative How do narratives influence moral decision-making? Our ongoing studies use serial reproduction of narratives, that is multiple retellings as in the telephone game, of morally ambiguous situations. In particular, we tested stories that include a minor misdemeanor, but leave open whether the wrongdoer will be punished by a bystander. It turns out that serial reproduction (retelling) of stories tends to eliminate the possibility of intervention by the bystander under certain conditions. We reason that this effect can be explained either by preferences of the readers or by the reader's discomfort to get involved. A second finding is that retellings of third-person narratives of moral situations lead to a higher degree of change and invention of the outcome than first-person narratives. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Fritz Breithaupt and Kevin M. Gardner and John K. Kruschke and Torrin M. Liddell and Samuel Zorowitz 2013 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 32, 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.36 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-41386 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2013.36 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode