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 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

• 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.
• 蜜獾吃书 - source show.