scholarly journals Urban legends in Poland

2013 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Marta Wójcicka
Keyword(s):  
Urban Legends

Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. Jody Enders

Speculum ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-184
Author(s):  
Jane Tolmie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Legends

Emotional selection in urban legends and Mad Cow disease

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Heath ◽  
Marwan Sinaceur ◽  
Chris Bell ◽  
Emily Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Urban Legends ◽  
Mad Cow Disease

The Razor Blade in the Apple: The Social Construction of Urban Legends

1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Best ◽  
Gerald T. Horiuchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Razor Blade ◽  
Urban Legends ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The science of rumors

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Crescimbene ◽  
Federica La Longa ◽  
Tiziana Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Urban Legends ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Final Question ◽  
Second World

<p>This study takes a soft scientific cut to talks about rumors, hoaxes and urban legends. Social psychology, more elegantly, uses the latin word rumor (rumour in British English), which means sound, voice, or gossip. In social, economical, political, cultural and scientific communication, rumors indicate news that is presumed true, that circulates without being confirmed or made evident. The scientific history of rumors is briefly described starting from the period of ancient Rome, throughout the Second World War and the Internet era, up to today. We will try to answer some questions that can be useful to scientists today. What are rumors? How are they born? How do they spread? By which laws are they regulated? How do we need to fight them? A final question regards the collocation of rumors into modern science. Science today is divided into ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ science (the latter of which generally lacks a basic mathematical structure); these terms, respectively, indicate the natural sciences, which investigate Nature, and the social/human sciences, which investigate man in all his facets. Maybe rumors can be thought of as a bridge suspended between two banks: those of ‘scientific truth’ and ‘human truth’.</p>

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Think ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (30) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michael Shermer
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Urban Legends

The 1990's über conspiracy-theory television series The X-Files was a decade-defining and culture-reflecting mosh pit of UFOs, extraterrestrials, psychics, demons, monsters, mutants, shape-shifters, serial killers, paranormal phenomena, urban legends turned real, corporate cabals and government cover-ups, and leakages unveiled by a deep-throat-like ‘cigarette smoking man’ character played, ironically, by real-life skeptic William B. Davis. Gillian Anderson's skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully played off David Duchovny's believing character Fox Mulder, whose slogans became posterized pop-culture catch-phrases ‘I want to believe’ and ‘The truth is out there’.

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