parasocial relationships ao3
- Created by: Ollybonkers
- Created on: 05-09-19 21:34
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- Parasocial relationships AO3
- What these theories leave out...
- role of individual differences
- intelligence and education
- Methodological problems
- CAS
- Encourages socially desirable answers
- likert scale
- problem with ordinal scale
- different people interpret the ratings differently
- self report measures
- correllations
- NO CAUSE AND EFFECT
- CAS
- Other variables
- social learning
- pay attention to celebs
- Presented as role models
- forced to show interest
- Presented as role models
- pay attention to celebs
- evolutionary psychology
- looking up to/ imitating others could have had a powerful advantage
- Douglas 2003
- Intelligent thing to pay attention to celebs
- Observe + copy is less risky than trial and error
- Prestige hypothesis
- Ancestors benefited from copying the successful
- Prestige hypothesis
- Humans evolved various behaviourist cognitive modules for cooperating and manipulating others
- social intelligence
- gained survival advantage
- small hunter gathering groups
- mass media
- social learning
- research into celeb stalking is beginning to support the theoretical hypothesis
- Pathology of attachment
- early childhood and disruptions
- major loss in adulthood prior to stalking
- increased levels of RSR
- likely to have poorer mental health: depression, anxiety, social dysfunction
- linked: personality disorders + severe mental disorders
- Pathology of attachment
- Strongest predictors of PSRs = poor mental health and difficulties with relationships
- But neither absorption-addiction or the attachment explanations are adequate for explaining the lowest levels of CAS
- entertainment - social levels of interest
- majority of celebs interest = fun, harmless
- promote productive social relationships
- serve as buffer against everyday stressors
- Best explanation = positive active view
- good for pathological health
- Insecure attachment style
- does predict individuals who believe stalking is okay
- very intense PSRs
- not indication of attachment to celeb
- positive and negative consequences
- entertainment + social reasons
- happy
- outgoing
- optimistic
- personal reasons / borderline pathological
- impulsive
- antisocial
- depressed
- solitary
- anxious
- entertainment + social reasons
- What these theories leave out...
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