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Social Studies of Science, 2014 Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends.
Rekdal OB.
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Urban Legends and Paranormal Beliefs: The Role of Reality Testing and Schizotypy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Recent research suggests that unconventional beliefs are locatable within a generic anomalous belief category. This notion derives from the observation that apparently dissimilar beliefs share fundamental, core characteristics (i.e., contradiction of ...
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Naloxone urban legends and the opioid crisis: what is the role of public health? [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 As the overdose crisis in North America continues to deepen, public health leaders find themselves responding to sensational media stories, many of which carry forms and themes that mark them as urban legends.
Alexis Crabtree, Jeffrey R. Masuda
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Magic Realism in Hiligaynon Urban Legends [PDF]
JPAIR, 2015 In the modern time, urban legends become unique and valuable stories in the community. These are living people's testimony about their experiences with mix magical and mundane elements in an overall context of realistic narrations. The primary concern of
Ruth Tribunal
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Review of the book by Ivan Kovačević. 2009. Urbane legende. Ogledi iz američkog folklora. [Urban Legends. Musings on American Folklore]. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu ...
Ana Banić-Grubišić
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007 Urban legends are friend-of-a-friend stories (FOAFS) that are told to describe strange, but supposedly real events, when in fact they are fictional through word of mouth invention or distortion.
Ljubomir Hristić
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Urban legends: recurrent aphthous stomatitis. [PDF]
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Urban legends are friend-of-a-friend stories (FOAFS) that are told to describe strange, but supposedly real events, when in fact they are fictional through word of mouth invention or distortion.
Ljubomir Hristić
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Global Folklore - Urban Legends
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 Ivan Kovačević. 2009. Urbane legende. Ogledi iz američkog folklora. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu. Etnološka biblioteka knj. 39. 154 strana. (Ivan Kovačević, Urban legends.
Ana Banić Grubišić
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Sewer Alligators: Urban Legends as Cognitive Maps
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the decades and become a bona fide urban legend. These (reports) are based upon stories of alligator, and other wild animal sightings in rather unorthodox locations ...
Ljubomir Hristić
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