When infatuation and fantasies about a celebrity or online influencer take over our real lives, we may be entering into the ...
The Cambridge Dictionary has declared Parasocial as the Word of the Year 2025 This has sparked a discussion around Parasocial ...
Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships, typically with an everyday individual and a celebrity or fictional character, said assistant professor of communication studies at Colorado State ...
"Parasocial" is the Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year, defined as a relationship felt by someone between themselves and ...
This feeling, the one where you think you know someone who doesn’t know you, is what fuels parasocial attachment. It’s ...
The dictionary said searches for its Word of the Year spiked as online celebrity moments intensified public interest in ...