bimble
floofy
Yep. It’s not because teenaged girls are thick, something else going on. Totally baseless hypothesis but maybe some people just carry on doing that when they’re older whilst most don’t because real relationships happen instead.
Obsessing over celebrities may be linked to lower intelligence study suggests....
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we don't need to wait for the study do we?
bimble
floofy
Quite an interesting subject really. They’re thickos doesn’t quite do the job though, unless you’re happy to say women are significantly thicker than men and ignore a whole load of other stuff.
link.springer.com
FANatics: Systematic literature review of factors associated with celebrity worship, and suggested directions for future research - Current Psychology
A ‘culture of celebrity’ began to emerge in the twentieth century, profoundly impacting the social world. Recent years have seen the publication of an increasing wealth of literature focusing on people who are enthralled with celebrities – often to the point of obsession – termed ‘celebrity...
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I'd hope he could spell Morrissey though. Despite his thickness.
This.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Thought I was getting it wrong, but I haven't got time to read surveys or spell the name of arsehole singers from the 80s right either.
It's Urban. All pedants studied under the mighty Pickmans.
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Ignore football for a start.Quite an interesting subject really. They’re thickos doesn’t quite do the job though, unless you’re happy to say women are significantly thicker than men and ignore a whole load of other stuff.
FANatics: Systematic literature review of factors associated with celebrity worship, and suggested directions for future research - Current Psychology
A ‘culture of celebrity’ began to emerge in the twentieth century, profoundly impacting the social world. Recent years have seen the publication of an increasing wealth of literature focusing on people who are enthralled with celebrities – often to the point of obsession – termed ‘celebrity...
Aladdin
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Lots of teenage boys really idolise football teams and football stars and other sports stars..
Come to think of it....its not just teenage boys that idolise football teams...
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Have never understood the mostly but not exclusively adult male obsession with football, particularly the fact that grown adults from places like Truro and Tunbridge Wells support teams like Manchester Utd or Liverpool FC when they have zero connections with these places. Yet they talk of their chosen team's victories or defeats as "we" have won this or "we" have lost that. It is fundamentally illogical.
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
I certainly ignore football
Yeah but because they score goals for their favourite teams; not simply because they're famous.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Not so, not so. There are a great crop of urban pedants who knew more of the subject before arriving here than i could ever have taught them
Aladdin
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Ach...it's all a vicious circle.
Is it normal?
Or is it just something that an average teen might do..
As a kid I remember wondering why kids in Ireland were buying football cards and idolising Man U when they'd never been to the UK let alone Manchester.
But ... back then I was more into crafts and books. So maybe it just depends on your interests.
Yeah, it's completely different and sensible, not irrational and childish like girls.
Isn't it more of a 'crush' thing than idolising in your teens? I had some Madonna posters on my wall aged 13.
Back in my day it was Debbie Harry of Blondie, lol
Is this what you are now? Sniffing out thought crimes like a pig around truffles?
For the record I hate football.
And I've just admitted to having Madonna posters on my wall if that's at all acceptable?
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Starry Wisdom
yet so many people listen to and so greatly admire music written and played by people in their teens and twenties and indeed often remain greatly attached to such throughout their lives - see, for example, the widespread great and continuing adoration of the sex pistols, none of whom were older than 23 when the band split.
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Starry Wisdom
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that's you done on urban, there's no coming back from an admission like that
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Raging hormones, a desire for "romance" - but safely, at a distance.
story
Changing the facts
bimble is this the sort of thing that you’re looking for?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
www.frontiersin.org
Studies that explore parasocial relationships, their impact on individuals and their broader effects are starting to burgeon now.
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship
The aim of this study was to examine to what extent parasocial relationships with micro-celebrities and mainstream celebrities differ in terms of perceived reciprocity, authenticity, intimacy, and ...
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A clinical interpretation of attitudes and behaviors associated with celebrity worship - PubMed
The phenomenon of celebrity worship is currently conceptualized as an abnormal type of parasocial relationship, driven by absorption and addictive elements and which potentially has significant clinical sequelae. The authors hypothesize that the three increasingly extreme sets of attitudes and...
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Parasocial Interactions and Relationships in Early Adolescence
Parasocial interactions and relationships, one-sided connections imagined with celebrities and media figures, are common in adolescence and might play a role in adolescent identity formation and autonomy development. We asked 151 early adolescents (Mage = 14.8 years) to identify a famous...
Studies that explore parasocial relationships, their impact on individuals and their broader effects are starting to burgeon now.
story
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It looks like cognitive impairment resulting from parasocial relationships ( as per the OP) has been a topic of interest for some time already.
Like, this one is from 2003
This is from 2010
Eta
Woah! Ugly! Clumsy!
I’ll try to tidy that up
Eta again
Here’s the pubmed link for that but I’ll leave that ugly mess up there too cos it’s paper itself.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Like, this one is from 2003
This is from 2010
Eta
Woah! Ugly! Clumsy!
I’ll try to tidy that up
Eta again
Here’s the pubmed link for that but I’ll leave that ugly mess up there too cos it’s paper itself.
A cognitive profile of individuals who tend to worship celebrities - PubMed
Celebrity worship is a form of parasocial interaction in which individuals become obsessed with 1 or more celebrities, similar to an erotomanic type of delusional disorder. Drawing on the cognitive factors implicated in erotomania, the authors hypothesized that celebrity worshippers might be...
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story
Changing the facts
If you google for terms like parasocial relationship cognitive impairment deficit it looks like it’s a question that’s been considered for some time.
Do another search for parasocial relationships + any other term, including positives outcomes, you’ll see results for that too.
I think we’re only just starting to explore what it means for so many huge numbers of humans to fixate and obsess on people we’ve never met. Before the internet, and before the pandemic (which has increased numbers, I think) parasocial relationships were still in the minority. Now, we’re in - or nearing - the situation where people have more online relationships (with people they never or rarely meet) than IRL relationships.
E.M Forster’s The Machine Stops should be required reading.
I notice that Radio 4 has dramatised it recently.
Drama - The Machine Stops - BBC Sounds
EM Forster's prescient vision of humanity isolated from each other, reliant on technology.
www.bbc.co.uk
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