When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then recite the stories to him, he found that details or morals were added to make the story coherent.

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This is true. Bartlett's study on "The War of the Ghosts" showed that people tend to remember and retell stories in a way that is coherent and meaningful to them, even if it means altering details or adding in information that was not originally present.

When Sir Frederic Bartlett Asked People to Read Unfamiliar Stories