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Title of the post is very misleading. The article uses word "worship", while "fascination" not even once. You can be fascinated by something in healthy bounds.
by Jorengarenar 5y ago
Title of the post is very misleading. The article uses word "worship", while "fascination" not even once. You can be fascinated by something in healthy bounds.
- daxuak 5y agoAlso note: the background section mentioned that this topic has been studied for some time (20 years), with largely mixed outcomes. I would guess that the conclusion is quite sensitive to the adopted methodology.
- wahern 5y ago> You can be fascinated by something in healthy bounds The same could be said of worship, whether "celebrity worship" or otherwise. But in any event the paper is merely exploring aggregate correlations, not positing a mutually exclusive relationship.
- nfw2 5y agoWorship implies an extreme degree of fascination if not used literally in a religious sense. To say someone "worships" a celebrity suggests that person acts similarly to how they would act if that person was a deity.