What is the relationship between celebrities and fans?

Fans and celebrities exist in separate worlds of awareness. Fans have an open awareness towards celebrities and are highly conscious of their actions and opinions. Celebrities, however, have a closed awareness towards fans in which they know little to none about their behavior.

Can you get emotionally attached to a celebrity?

Studies by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Calgary surveying young adults revealed that 90 percent felt a strong attraction to a celebrity, 65 percent felt strong attachments to multiple celebrities, and 30 percent even wished to be the celebrity they admired, reports Pacific Standard.

What is it called when you feel like a celebrity?

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. Positive information learned about the media persona results in increased attraction, and the relationship progresses.

Why am I emotionally attached to a celebrity?

Celebrities. Forming an emotional bond of sorts with an actor or other celebrity, fueled by absorbing media pertaining to them through the web, television or a tattered copy of our favorite novel, reaffirms our end of the relationship without their being any actual reciprocity from the object of our affections.

Is it normal to obsess over a celebrity?

The people that demonstrate this form of stalking behavior are likely to suffer from a mental disorder, commonly either schizophrenia or paranoia. Individuals that are love obsessional stalkers often convince themselves that they are in fact in a relationship with the subject of their obsession.