How Do We React When Our Favorite Characters Are Taken Away? An Examination of a Temporary Parasocial Breakup

By Julie Lather, Emily Moyer-Gusé. 2011

98 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4119821361205266d6a7b3b7c485f58d51535d29

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In Communication

1. René M. Dailey
2. Keren Eyal
3. Bradley J. Bond

In Gender Studies

1. René M. Dailey
2. Keren Eyal
3. Bradley J. Bond
4. Riva H. Tukachinsky

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. René M. Dailey
2. Keren Eyal
3. Bradley J. Bond
4. Riva H. Tukachinsky

Citations in the corpus

• Examining Relational Maintenance in Parasocial Relationships (2012, background): “Women tend to achieve closeness or intimacy in friendships through the use of self-disclosure more so than do men (Caldwell & Peplau, 1982; Fehr, 2004), and they also experience stronger PSRs than men (J. Cohen, 1997; Lather & Moyer-Guse, 2011).”