Richard Dorson / 理查德·多尔森

Richard Dorson appears in 95.都市传说：猎奇故事和我们内心深处的焦虑 as the folklorist who helped name contemporary anonymous life-related stories as “urban belief tales.” The episode uses him to place [[UrbanLegend|都市传说]] inside folklore research rather than treating it as only entertainment or superstition.

His role in the source is methodological: once urban legends are treated as folklore, their social function, variants, transmission route, and anxiety content can be studied without first deciding that every story is literally true.

Connections

• [[UrbanLegend|都市传说]] - concept framed through Dorson’s terminology.
• Evidence-Bound Folklore Inquiry - method neighbor for studying stories without overclaiming.
• Legend As Social History and Folklore Trauma Encoding - related folklore-reading frames.
• [[MihuanChishu|蜜獾吃书]] - source show.