The Power of Fiction in Science Fiction and Philosophy

I'm basing this mostly on anecdotal data but although I'm also basing it on the fact that I don't remember the the citation of the study now. TV shows or at least this one TV show that they looked at about ghost hunting that was that was explicitly like labeled at the beginning of the show as being fictional people still came away from it feeling more confident that ghosts existed and yeah I just have a bunch of anecdotal examples of people arguing that the world is a certain way and their evidence is a fiction. When you use a science fiction story let's say in a class like the one that I taught on science fiction and philosophy what you're doing is you're dissecting the story