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Parasocial Relationships on YouTube Reduce Prejudice
One sided relationships can be healthy for eliminating certain prejudices. For example, if someone becomes obsessed with a YouTuber of African-American descent and they develop a milder or stronger version of a parasocial relationship with that person, then they will be less inclined to rank high on different kinds of tests. This is from nature.com published October 4th, 2022 by a series of PhD Shaba Loton, Veronica M Lamarch.