Perhaps you have spotted a job interview with a celebrity and you may consider about how exactly much fun the two of you would have hanging aside?

To take a step further, do you religiously follow athletes‘ social media feeds and model their lifestyles? Or, feel personally betrayed by scandals involving your favorite personalities, like Adam Levine’s texting or The Was Guys‘ Ned Fulmer cheat.

“Parasocial relationships are a one-sided relationship with a public figure of some kind, where the person believes there’s an actual relationship,” says Erin Rayburn, LMFT, owner, CEO, and supervising therapist at Evergreen Treatment. “It’s a personification, really.”

Someone could form parasocial matchmaking which have anyone who they will not in fact see, but they have been popular which have societal rates, such as a-listers, musicians and artists, sports athletes, and influencers. Celý příspěvek →