Date:    Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:16:23 -0400
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
<br>Subject: bogus anecdotes
<br>
<br>Someone questioned the veracity of the RH elevator narrative. (Sorry, I
<br>deleted before I noted who wrote it.) Certainly, some of the
<br>Metropolitan Diary entries are bogus. Recently, I read there the old urban
<br>legend about the nun who bought the package of cookies, encountered a man
<br>who helped himself, etc. -- she, of course, later finds her package of
<br>cookies in her bag and realizes that she was the one who helped herself
<br>to somebody else's cookies. My point: I do not recall reading any
<br>published research about the hallmarks of bogus narratives, about what it
<br>is I know that lets me know that a narrative is bogus. Is there
<br>something? Is someone working on this?
<br>
<br>Bethany
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