Attraction of celebrity

• individual is attracted to another but the target individual is unaware
• common among celebs and fans
• they are common due to the there are no demands and no rejections
• meta-analysis showed that people are more attracted to to people who are on the tv and are attractive and similiar to their self
• no evidence to say that teenagers are the only ones involved in these relationships

• people who are socially acitvated and motivated are more likely to engage in paraosocial relationships
• parasocial relationships offer social benefits such as generosity and culutral values
• studies have shown that there is a percieved reduction in uncertanity about soical relationships

• most people go beyond the entertainment scale
• motivational forces driving this absorption can become an addiction
• this then leaves to worse behaviours
• there are 3 levels to this process:

1. entertainment-social: fans attracted to celebs due to ability to entertain and to become source of interaction

2. inetense-personal: aspects of the worship become more intensive and complusive feelings become

3. borderline pathological: uncontrollable behaviours and fantasies about the celeb

• Maltby et al (2003) used EPQ to asses the relationship between celebs and personalities
• found the entertainment scale was accosicated with extraversion
• intense level accosicated with neuroticism which is linked to anxiety which is why these relationships may be linked to mental health

1. attraction to creative individual:

• humans beings have a love of neophillia
• females have greater desire moer than ever to find someone who has this trait
• musicians, artisits display such characterisitcs which is why we are drawn to them
• sexual selection may say why we are drawn to them

2. celeb gossip

• exchange of social interaction been going on for years
•  gossip creates social bonds
• can also effect rivals positions
• researchers suggest that we believe people who are within the media to be in our soical group

• there is an enzyme that has been stuided which shows that we this may link to our love of neophillia
• no explanation as to why such traits as creativity in musicians would have been attractive to ancestral members of the opposite sex
• media expsoure lead to the misperception that celebs were in our soical group and that gossip is useful in finding out information along with the media so studies have said