ABSTRACT
The most famous psychological studies conducted by Frederic Bartlett (18861969) were those of repeated reproduction of ‘The War of the Ghosts’, which he reported in Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology (1932; hereafter cited as Remembering). He used other materials in repeated reproduction studies, too, but ‘The War of the Ghosts’ experiments are the ones that are recounted in virtually all textbooks on introductory psychology, cognitive psychology and human memory. Discussion of these studies is the primary focus of our chapter. Other writers in this volume describe Bartlett’s many other accomplishments, so we permit ourselves to consider a relatively circumscribed topic, albeit the one for which he is best known within contemporary psychology.
