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.