In this study, 174 respondents completed an online questionnaire measuring their
responses to a liked, neutral, or disliked character from the ABC drama Lost. Specifically�…

This study supports the refinement of the concept of parasocial interaction (PSI) to apply to
mediated personae that viewers might dislike. By contrast, traditional approaches have�…

This experiment was designed to assess the construct validity of the Rubin, Perse, and
Powell (1985) Parasocial Interaction Scale. One group of subjects viewed a situation�…

This study examined the antecedents of viewer relationships experienced with television
characters. Based on social cognitive theory, we considered how trait aggression helped�…

This study examines viewers' reactions to parasocial breakup with mediated characters in
light of interpersonal and mass communication theories. Following the airing of the last�…

This study examined the relationships among children's age, parasocial interaction, and the
social realism of children's self-reported favorite television characters. Children (N= 183)�…

For decades, entertainment scholars have examined audience responses to media
personalities. One of the ways in which viewers interact with characters on TV is through�…

The celebrity-persona parasocial interaction scale (CPPI) is designed to measure how
media consumers form parasocial relationships with celebrities or popular fictional�…

When the anthropologist Donald Horton and the sociologist R. Richard Wohl published their
essay on parasocial interactions (PSI) and parasocial relation ships (PSR), titled “Mass�…

This paper considers the phenomenon of parasocial interaction (PSI) used by media
researchers to describe the relationship between media users and media figures (from�…