 In September 2007, "American Psychologist" published an examination of the factual basis of coverage of the Genovese murder in psychology textbooks.The three authors concluded that the story was more parable than fact, largely because of inaccurate newspaper coverage at the time of the incident.According to the authors, "despite this absence of evidence, the story continues to inhabit our introductory social psychology textbooks (and thus the minds of future social psychologists)."