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Social psychology
a story told as true that spreads by retelling, selected in part for the emotions such as disgust that it evokes.In social psychology, urban legend refers to a story told as true that spreads by retelling, selected in part for the emotions such as disgust that it evokes. This meaning comes from Heath (2001) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]