# Urban Legends as examples of folk theories and cognitive models

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The piece argues that urban legends both express and shape the cognitive models people use to interpret events.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 9 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: urban-legends, folk-theories, cognitive-models, narrative.

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