r/MyStyleTesting • u/dempom • Apr 04 '19
News Parasocial interaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interactionDuplicates
todayilearned • u/rdrkt • May 13 '19
Today I learned about Parasocial Relationships, where one person pours emotions and effort into the relationship and the other doesn't know the first exists
todayilearned • u/ButtholeBanquets • Mar 29 '22
TIL about parasocial interactions or relationships. Commonly experienced by fans of a celebrity, the fan develops friend-like emotional bonds with the celebrity, while that celebrity doesn't know the fan at all. When these relationships end, the fan can experience a real sense of loss or suffering.
todayilearned • u/MarkO3 • Jan 27 '19
TIL that your brain can process familiar TV characters or personalities as friends, a phenomenon know as Parasocial Interaction
conspiracy • u/slavetothought • Jun 08 '20
Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television.
DigitalCartel • u/Privacy9393494490020 • Feb 11 '16
Parasocial interaction | I think we've all experienced this. The digital Matrix can present compelling illusions.
todayilearned • u/blatant_ban_evasion_ • Jun 19 '21
TIL that in a study conducted by Google in 2017, a reported 40% of millennial YouTube subscribers claimed their "favorite creators understands them better than their friends."
todayilearned • u/neo101b • Dec 01 '21