Love Makes You Real: Favorite Television Characters Are Perceived as “Real” in a Social Facilitation Paradigm
By W. Gardner, Megan L. Knowles. 2008
113 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Raymond A. Mar
- Nicholas Epley
- Adam Waytz
- John T. Cacioppo
- Jeffrey A. Hall
- Keith Oatley
- D. Davis
- Jordan B. Peterson
In Literature and Literary Theory
- Raymond A. Mar
- Keith Oatley
- Jordan B. Peterson
- Jeffrey A. Hall
- Nicholas Epley
- E. Koopman
- Emanuele Castano
- D. Kidd
In Social Psychology
- Raymond A. Mar
- Nicholas Epley
- Adam Waytz
- John T. Cacioppo
- Jeffrey A. Hall
- Keith Oatley
- D. Davis
- Kurt Hugenberg
Citations in the corpus
- The neural bases of social cognition and story comprehension. (2011, background): “The mere presence of fictional others can relieve feelings of loneliness and isolation (Derrick et al. 2009, Epley et al. 2008), for example, or produce social psychological phenomenon such as social facilitation (Gardner & Knowles 2008).”
- Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes (2009, background): “Research has demonstrated that favourite television characters can influence us in a manner similar to real peers, particularly if they are seen as “real” (Gardner and Knowles, 2008).”
- WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN: MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM (2008, background): “Understanding how people think about even relatively mundane nonhuman agents can have wide–ranging—and potentially very important—implications (for some examples see Chartrand, Fitzsimmons, Fitzsimons, 2008, this issue, Gardner & Knowles, 2008, this issue, and Kiesler, Powers, Fussell, & Torrey, 2”
- Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging (2009, background): “They become more willing to self-disclose, show more empathy (Knowles, 2007), and demonstrate social facilitation effects (Gardner & Knowles, 2008).”
- Proposing the Communicate Bond Belong Theory: Evolutionary Intersections With Episodic Interpersonal Communication (2017, background): “Social snacking research demonstrates that behaviors can be psychologically and/or physiologically beneficial, even if they fail to cement social bonds (e.g., writing to a liked celebrity) (Gardner & Knowles, 2008).”