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>Current research is discovering that individuals suffering from social isolation can employ television to create what is termed a parasocial or faux relationship with characters from their favorite television shows and movies as a way of deflecting feelings of loneliness and social deprivation.[1] Just as an individual would spend time with a real person sharing opinions and thoughts, pseudo-relationships are formed with TV characters by becoming personally invested in their lives as if they were a close friend[1] so that the individual can satiate the human desire to form meaningful relationships
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>>86833714
sounds like something written by a women who is just shitting something out for their job otherwise they would be fired
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>>86833714
sounds like theyre like 50 years behind the curve
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>character is isolated from anyone else for a very long time
>starts talking to inanimate object
how long has that cliche existed? why are people surprised people do this to tv characters?
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>>86834481
>why are people surprised
thats quite the assumption. if you understand the person wrote that article to fulfill a quota. it makes sense
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just play an mmo lo l
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