This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222001637

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Fiction does not require unrealistic elements.

If it is entirely realistic it is no longer fiction. Ergo, fiction needs some degree of unreality. I don't see how that's controversial, haha.

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