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Podcast 74 - 1.5-Sided Parasocial Relationships

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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Parasocial Relationships in the 1950s

The idea with parasocial relationships in the 1950s at least was this interaction that you have with this person. So people would talk about like the death of a character from mash or the ending of the series of Harry Potter. And we've had real emotions towards it and felt really upset about that. But the idea here was to challenge that because now social media is a thing.

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